All true re apps, but isn't the social engineering side equally fascinating?

A TedTalk is delivered on how to "hack the algorithms": tens of thousands of people follow that advice. Instantly, it becomes nearly counterproductive.

Men train other lonely men on how to "game" the system - then weaponize their trainees, turning loose a horde of misguided "players" who present themselves antisocially in order to appear more powerful, and in the process, exhaust women with vicious garbage, until women give up on dating in general, or lower their standards given what they thought was the "pool."

Entire coaching/poaching industries follow: human psychology at work, influenced by group interactions to yield a series of interactions that change the rules mid game. Add in political realities (esp re immigration), biology, family, ethnicity...as many complications as there are people seeking a mate and/or companionship, creating and tweaking the rules within rules.

Dating and mating has always been perilous. Obviously, risks fall most heavily on women. Less obviously, certain men shift the consequences of those risks to both other men and women. Nothing is fair in love or war, and apps cannot alter that - merely change the nature of the field.