Look its a brutal truth, but looks matter and paying for a subscription isn't going to make your chances of meeting someone higher. No matter what dating app comes out, it will always be about the top 20% of men getting matches while the rest get almost nothing.
Then you go on to say, but wait online dating isn't real life? Or is it? An increasing amount of people are meeting through online dating these days. I'd say it very accurately represents real life, granted personalities may not always be attractive and result in a breakup there is a looks threshold that needs to be met before anything meaningful emerges.