Every so often we hear from a couple who matched in the 50s and got married anyway. We asked a handful of them what carried them past a number that, on paper, said "proceed with caution."
The pattern wasn't chemistry — several said the spark was real from the start regardless of the score. It was that both people treated the low score as a list of things to watch for, not a verdict. One couple with a weak Team fate said they scheduled a blunt money conversation in month two specifically because the app flagged it as a risk area. Another with a rough Lifestyle score just accepted early that they'd need separate hobbies instead of shared ones, and stopped resenting each other for it.
A score is a description of friction points, not a sentence. Ignoring it outright is no better than treating it as gospel — the couples who did best used it as an agenda, not an oracle. The other consistent factor: none of them found out the score after they were already invested enough to be defensive about it.