Tldr: do I tell her I like her or not

Hey everybody, was hoping for some advice because there is so much info online but it's actually a little hard to know what route to take, and it seems even people on this subredit are divided.

I've gone out with this 9-10 girl on 2 official dates and two times we hung out as acquittances. Both dates we made out a few times and got along great. In fact it's the first girl I like in quite a while. I tend to know quick. I'm new to seduction/game and found it just in time to learn that my whole life I've been kinda needy and I'm trying not to be with this girl. Especially since you can tell she's been chased after her whole life. We barely text mainly because she doesn't seem to want to text much. She will though always reply if I send something but for the first time in my life, I'm trying to keep that very minimal. She doesn't express much or really give me many hints that she likes me besides agreeing to hanging out every time and occasionally responding with mildly flirty (or banter-y) response to a text, and in general replying to my messages. I know already I like this girl. And I want to keep seeing her in a dating way. I'm pretty sure she's playing the field a lil as well for the record. She's mentioned several times when referring to the show The Bachelor how sweet it is when one of the guys is all in on this girl and she mentions how every girl wants that. Now, here's where my confusion comes in. I feel like sometimes I read that your feelings shouldn't be so clear. That women are attracted more when the man's feelings aren't so certain. And not giving her all the power by knowing ur really into her. But other times I read about how you should make the woman feel like the most special girl ever. Tell her what u like about her and tell her she's beautiful. Up until now I haven't done too much of that. My question is, do I tell her that I actually like her and want to keep seeing her but also not take away her freedom? (For the record the first date I disqualified her for me a lot...worked great and kinda still comes up as somewhat jokes). Just being clear about me actually liking her for her. Or do I try to keep my feelings a little more buried and ambiguous? I'm not exactly sure where I stand with her besides hanging out and having fun for now. Tomorrow is date 3 and she's coming over for the second time and im gonna try for escalation. We'll see how it goes. So what do you all think