"You have to deal with being ghosted for no reason, one-word or even one letter responses, and sometimes receiving unsolicited pictures."
In my opinion, behavioral standards should be raised. I was talking about attractiveness standards.
If a guy is ghosting or putting very little effort into the courtship, it's because he has tons of other options. This is a symptom of a majority of the women going for the same small number of men, as was outlined in the article.
For example, I've dated a lot of women who only go for guys 6 feet and up. That's 14% of the male population. By that criteria alone, they're rejecting almost 9 out of 10 men. So 86% of men get nothing, and then men in my position can go on 5 dates a week if we want.
Imagine if you narrow this to handsome men who are 6 feet and up. I think you and I see the same issue on the apps.