Women have always been attracted to only about the top 20% of guys. Lots of guys like to blame social media and feminism for making the dating market difficult, but the reality is that you are simply not in the top 20% of guys as far as looks, wealth, and status.
Guys complain about hoeflation, the idea that you have to work harder to get a woman who is worse than the women from your grandfather's era. They think that if they were born in an earlier period then they'd be surrounded by a beautiful 'traditional' wife and children fanning them and feeding them grapes but the truth is that most men are just not in the top 20%. In early human history, only 1 in 17 men procreated.
That said, women have indeed gotten worse as well, encouraging one another to have ho phases and be solipsistic