Changing Block to Hide and now making even Hiding a paid feature poses a considerable safety risk on a platform already plagued by bad faith actors.

I have been sexually assaulted by a hookup in my hometown before and I know for a fact he makes new profiles. Now thanks to your changes if I were to identify a profile as his I would have to interact with him enough to get Hide to change to Block which in my experience so far is unreliable (in multiple cases I have been unable to block profiles with which I have had conversations).

Additionally, I work in college education and have from time to time relied on Block to pre-emptively block students.

Grindr doesn't care about user safety. If it did, safety wouldn't be a premium feature. Grindr cares about fleecing an endangered subculture for a quick buck while working to promote an image that it is the only option for community and connection especially in areas where that subculture is an even smaller, more endangered and targeted minority... Basically Grindr provides even its illusion of "safety" now only mid-mugging.