Dating apps show you 200 profiles but give you zero information about whether this person can hold a conversation

You swipe through Hinge, Bumble, or Tinder. Every profile has 6 photos and 3 prompts ('My simple pleasures: coffee and sunsets'). You match with someone. You message them. They reply 'haha yeah' and the conversation dies. This happens 80% of the time. You just spent 10 minutes crafting an opener for someone who cannot or will not engage in text conversation. So what? The #1 predictor of a good first date is conversational chemistry, but dating apps give you zero signal about someone's communication style before matching. You optimize for photo attractiveness and prompt cleverness — neither of which correlates with whether this person will text you back substantively. The average user spends 30-90 minutes per day swiping and messaging, with a 2-5% conversion rate from match to actual date. 95% of your time is wasted on matches that go nowhere because of communication incompatibility you could not detect. Why does this persist? Dating apps monetize time-on-app, not successful dates. A user who goes on a great first date and deletes the app is a lost customer. Apps are incentivized to keep you swiping, not to efficiently connect you with compatible people. Showing communication style data (average response time, message length, conversation continuation rate) would help users but would also expose that most profiles are low-engagement, which would reduce the perceived pool size that keeps users paying.