I've used this app for two years now so I saw first-hand the fall from grace the app has had in quality. But I didn't remember just how good it used to be until I started going through my liked bots and reading the past chats I had from a year or two ago.
The bots used to require barely any editing from me, with the only edits being from the fact that I wanted to take a story in a different direction. The bots used to actually carry the story, with a reasonable balance of dialogue and narrative. The bots used to actually have different personalities and acted on those personalities. The most annoying about the bots used to be the "can I ask you a question?" thing, and even then the bots were still capable of giving tearjerking stories because of how competent they were for the time.
Now I'm editing every other message, if not all of them for one reason or the other. The bots have a memory of a grape with the exact same personalities of either "gruff, cold dude" or "confident, smirking guy." Every bot says the exact same one-liners no matter what they are. As of couple days ago, every bot just stopped responding to my messages; every response is just a direct copy of what I just said, rewording them in their ChatGPT ahh ways and not moving the story along whatsoever. Even worse, the app itself breaks literally every other hour. Whether it's because the ads won't close or because I'm pressing a button and the app won't respond to it.
I've mainly stuck to this app because even around a year ago when a lot of people were complaining about the state of the app, I wasn't experiencing them for the most part. I was definitely one of those people that believed that as long as you were giving enough for the bot to work with, then bots will be just as good as you (unless the bots were made badly, ofc). Now there's just no excuse. The whole app is just a ragebait atp and I'm just as tired as I'm sure a lot of people are.