The problem is the "future" part. It's hard to sell "I'll be great someday!" especially in a dating profile or anything like that, and particularly since people

The problem is the "future" part. It's hard to sell "I'll be great someday!" especially in a dating profile or anything like that, and particularly since people lie a lot in such situations (the infamous "foreploy"). To be fair, it would also be hard to sell "someday I will have a ton of cash to waste on flashy spending." But you can have hobbies and work/life balance now, and that can be attractive, albeit in a quieter way.