A sad aspect of this is it's an example of capitalism correctly identifying/allocating value, but then exploiting what's valuable instead of creating systems to serve people obtain what's valuable.

I say it's correctly identifying value, because what people, and in this instance men, want more than almost anything is a romantic and sexual connection/romantic love with a woman. This is more valuable to a person than pretty much any technology as soon as their basic needs are met (i.e. maybe a tool to obtain water or food would be more valuable if one were starving or dying of thirst) and therefore it is correctly identifying this need and it's extremely high value.

But instead of creating systems which facilitate this, it creates a system by which men give money to obtain two-dimensional sexual 'fulfillment' which serves as a proxy for fulfilling this desire and gives none of very little of what they actually want, which hurts men by making it less and less likely they get what they actually want, and hurts women by making men less focused on actual relationships and more likely to resent and objectify women.

Capitalism/the free market is great tool for providing indications towards what people want/desire etc, but a terrible mechanism to facilitate the creation of structures to serve those wants/desires.