What I did not sufficiently emphasize is that filtering this way does active harm if you do not highly valuable height. If one was willing to search in a pool of people less tall, you would have far more leverage to seek out other traits you want, and generally have an easier time of it. Let others outbid you.

I think it still makes sense for women to use the height filter. It's not as though once they use the filter, they're locked in to only seeing guys above the desired height. They could just... turn off the filter if they find that they're not getting what they want with the filter on. And Bumble in particular allows you to toggle "Show other people if I run out."