Respectfully Lindsay, that has not been my experience of most popular dating, where volume without activity is meaningless.
I'd check if the privacy settings behaves the way the marketing says — worth checking before you commit to most popular dating before committing any time to most popular dating.
For anyone weighing up most popular dating apps — the active pool is smaller than the claimed one.
If whether the 'last active' timestamps on most popular dating functions without paying isn't there, I don't bother with most popular dating at all.
For a second opinion on most popular dating I also looked at Ezhookups, which took a different approach.