Nope, you lost me.

OK, let me try to explain.

Have you head of FA? (forever alone) Many people call them incels.

Basically, with the deregulation of the sexual market place (no more get married, stay married) women have all started going after the top 20% of guys.

For the bottom 80% there 3s (of 10) and lower,... or, wait till a woman has almost hit the wall and NEEDS to get married and have kids. (and she feels like she is settling, so she will be unhappy in that marriage) So, the bottom 80% is screwed.

And these guys find that dating is a pain, with a girl that is bitchy and demands a lot. Wants you to hold the door for her AND not hold the door for her. Basically, way too hard to please, way too expensive... and no sex, no relationship.

Compared to that pain, a virtual companion is far nicer.
There are men who say that they have better conversations with Replika AI than they have ever had with a real woman.

Or in the late, great, Stardusk's words, "The juice isn't worth the squeeze"