We are being way too generous to dating app companies here. They invented their own problems, and applied those problems to our social lives in order to turn a

We are being way too generous to dating app companies here. They invented their own problems, and applied those problems to our social lives in order to turn a profit. Dating apps aren't optimized for connection. They are optimized for engagement. The most engaging dating behavior is rejection. The only utility that a dating app can provide its users is to maximize the number of interactions. Tinder explicitly limits the number of interactions (swipes) a user can perform each day. It also limits the diversity of the group that each user interacts with. By doing this, Tinder has explicitly removed all of its utility! The only thing it has left is its walled garden; so it's no surprise how anticompetitive Match has become.