I still didn't get what's shocking about this sort of take being that it's a date from a dating app.

Yeah, I couldn't really tell, I don't have much experience with the dating apps. But yeah in general the fact we are more or mainly digitally communicating nowadays has its cons for sure. It feels much harder to meet people in real life in person for so it's almost like, do we have a choice?! Donno. I don't even know if that's true. I was living in a small town with a vibrant community and was interacting with tons of people irl for the last decade. Thought the dating pool didn't quite match what and who I was looking for. So that was limiting. Which is why I left the area eventually.