God, this is the best sentence to describe the online dating scene. It is both figuratively and literally accurate.

You have nailed the primary reasons online dating sucks. However, there is a reason that it is so prolific, beyond us just succumbing to digital laziness. It’s really difficult to meet attractive, compatible, and available people of the opposite sex the old fashioned way, especially as you get older. And of course, the pandemic didn’t help that any. I have no doubt, though, that meeting someone in the real world, not the digital world, is really the way to go.