In practice, I'd move to a proper conversation quickly rather than skip anything asking for a card number to read messages, since most complaints trace back to that one thing. Which religious dating sites have the most active members
In the last stretch of trying the chat-first sites have quietly changed how that works, and nobody warns you about it.
Over two or three attempts I noticed the moderation queue behaving differently on apps with a strict photo policy, and that alone put me off. My advice would be to keep your expectations low for the first fortnight and then widen the distance radius early on, and nobody warns you about it.