It's the simplicity of their worldview. In attempting to understand modern dating they break things down in simple stereotypes, generalization and uncritical appeals to biology. And if you present evedencento the contrary, they go to work trying to figure out how they call it a rare exception, or accuse you of LARPing. AWALT is a prime example. No room for nuance there. It's appeal is its simplicity.

You know what breeds simplicity? Lack. Abundance breeds complexity.

Think of the dietary habits of well off westerners. You might go vegetarian, or vegan, or keto, or paleo, or take supplements, or no meat after 2PM, or any number of intricate variations of just putting food into your body. You might even think all that complexity is very important, and you might be right. But the starving man will eat anything. Pure simplicity. The poor mock the complexity of the rich.

But you're trying to tell me that the men who've made an obsession of oversimplifying something as complex as dating are now swimming in women. Impossible. The reality of the variety of women would make their ideology wither if they were.

I'm sure some are doing ok. But by and large?