Sure emotional attraction (I think this sub calls it RMV) is important for a relationship. But sexual attraction (SMV) is far more fundamental and important as this is what gets your foot in the door.

Male dating advice is marketed to men to make them more attractive prospects relationship wise. Things such as dressing better, making more money/better career, improving your social skills, being more confident, be more generous, have more hobbies/things to talk about, don't be overly nice/pushover, have direction etc. (there's more but I'll stop it there)

While all of these things are fine in of themselves. There's one big glaring issue here; none of these things makes a woman horny and wet to the point of being desperate to fuck you right now. The only one of those I mentioned which is the exception is confidence; however confidence comes from success and the type of confidence that really turns women on can't be faked (as PUAs learn through 1000s of failures). It's not that women are so smart; you're just a bad actor.

Being a better conversationalist may make you more attractive to talk to and hang out with. But it doesn't make a woman desperate for sex with you. Same as being generous and feeding the homeless on a Sunday morning. Same with having good social skills (whatever that means). [side note hilariously gay men probably have the objectively best social skills amongst men but do women want to fuck their gay friends?]

A relationship with zero sexual attraction is as worthless as a cock flavoured lollipop (actually the lollipop may be more useful as it can be used for practice). It doesn't matter if women enjoy your company, if your SMV is low and she's dryer than the Sahara Desert you're worse off than the handsome male model who spends most of his spare time playing Fortnite. He can use Tinder and succeed, you are just screwed (and not in the good way).

You can't fuck a personality. But you can fuck looks and behaviour (the actual behaviours that make men attractive can be debatable but still it's a component). You certainly can't fuck a wallet either; even if it's a hamwallet.

Work on your SMV, personality and "growing up" can be worked on in your own time or whenever you want. There's no rush to grow up these days either.

Why aren't dating advice columns more honest and instead mislead men by conflating SMV and RMV ?