I think this has become increasingly infeasible over the past decade due to the rise of social media and internet usage. People have become very picky with ver

I think this has become increasingly infeasible over the past decade due to the rise of social media and internet usage. People have become very picky with very short attention spans (scroll through feeds, swipe left/right, filter people on dating apps based on very specific attributes, etc). Also to a large degree "locality" benefits (and limitations) have faded. 10-20 years ago people didn't have access to such a seemingly infinite pool of people. It was more limited to the people around them (people likely to visit the same pubs and coffee shops and events and so on). I don't think young people today have the patience to "invest" in getting to know random people like that anymore. Instead of spending days and weeks with someone only to find out that they don't match well together, they go through 300 profiles and talk to 5 of "the best" ones out of that pool. And often times there's lots of information packed in social media that they can pick up quickly (politics, job, education, culture, etc). It would take much longer to pick up that stuff in organic real world interactions because people don't quiz each other like that.