Is t4t dating worth it?
For a lot of people, yes. The pool is smaller and the baseline is much higher.
t4t means trans for trans: trans people dating other trans people, deliberately rather than incidentally. People who move to it tend to do so after a period of the alternative, and the reasons are consistent.
What it removes
The explaining. Nobody needs the concept of pronouns introduced, nobody asks what your name used to be, and nobody treats your existence as a topic. Whole categories of conversation just do not happen.
The vetting. In a mixed space a large part of your effort goes into working out whether someone is interested in you or in a category. That work does not disappear entirely in t4t spaces, but it drops enormously.
The asymmetry. Dating someone who has thought about gender for the first time because of you is a particular kind of labour. It is not always bad, and it is always work.
What it adds
Shorthand. Being understood without translation is not a small thing, and people describe it as the difference rather than a nice extra.
Reciprocity. Your partner has some version of the same experience, so you are not the designated fragile one in the relationship.
The honest downsides
The pool is much smaller, and outside large cities it can be very small. That means fewer options, more people who already know each other, and the awkwardness of small communities: exes overlapping with friends, and news travelling faster than you would like.
It is not a guarantee of anything. Trans people can be unkind, incompatible or dishonest at exactly the ordinary rate. t4t removes one specific problem; it does not make anyone a better partner.
And it is not an obligation. Nobody is required to date within a category, and people who prefer to date cis partners are not doing anything wrong.
If you want to try it
Say it on your profile. Plainly: t4t, or looking to meet other trans people. It filters immediately and it costs nothing.
Go where the density is. Trans-specific and queer social spaces, online and offline, will do more for you than an app whose design admits everyone. And expect it to be slower — a smaller pool is a smaller pool, and no amount of good design changes the arithmetic.