The moment you talk about "low quality" women/men is the moment you are treating people as things and not people. Is extremely disrespectful and a real turn-off. Maybe the problem is not that you need to be exceptional to get dates, but that people don't like to be "graded" and treated as a commodity. Since women are people, chances are that they discard men who behave in ways that show your mindset.
In fact, chances are that the women you deem "low quality" or "average" are seen as interesting by the men they date. And contrary to your belief, some of them settle and offer relationships, because in a relationship there are more things than just looks.
By the way, you don't need the best opener for someone to answer back, but you do need to have a conversation and show that you are treating them as a person and not a number. So maybe, asking for something in HER profile, lands more chances at a conversation. It would show that you have taken interest in HER and are not just "optimizing” (wrong) your profile to maximize matches. That a woman or any person looking at your profile shows interest in you. Normal people like that. But of course, if you only want dates based on looks, it is perfectly normal that you only get interactions based on looks. It goes both ways...
You are allowed to have preferences, but women are also allowed to have preferences and discard people who rate them as low-high quality instead of treating them as people. If you want to go on a date with someone that you consider "low quality" and don't really like as if you were doing them a favor and expecting that that person feels so grateful for that, you are going with the wrong attitude. That person would pick on that, not feeling comfortable with you, and in a perfectly logical way, decide that it is better alone than with you. Or with another person. You are not doing them a favor, neither the other person is doing you a favor. You are meeting someone. You might like each other or don't, that's it, nothing owed.
Yes, now women have it better because we can choose. And since we have our own money, how much money men have is no longer that important (or even important at all). But on the other hand, many men have it better too, because now they can have their other qualities valued. But again, for that to happen, they need to treat others as people and accept that finding someone compatible with you takes time and effort. C'est la vie
