This is the downside of progress my friend.
Before, Cruising had stakes. whether it was covertly checking out a potential playmate and clicking in a space -Whether public or private-, or stumbling on a group of guys gettingbit on, Getting caught did something to heat the situation. The exposure could be addictive. and it didn't matter where you did it, in a bar, on a pier, beach, between two cars, in a sauna, in your own apartment. it didn't matter.
Before there were potrable super computer phones in our pockets with nstant nudes, internet porn at a moment's notice and literal electronic bulletin boards of the next nearest cock or community cum dumpster, or PrEP, one has to be fully present to hunt.
Whether Predator or Prey "Man2Man" interactions had chemistry, not easily subverted by fantasy. But when you can literally See the guy at a gym, bar, grocery store on some random hook up site and never talk to him, but yet you know all that you need to know to get you off, interpersonal interaction becomes redundant. Why, because you have the best version of them already at your disposal. where the real you might not like deep anal, and much preferre being hot dogged, the you in his fantasies can't get enough cock in his hole. Maybe you're a Dominant guy, in his mind you're either a needy submussive, or Dom that He can turn the tables on. That fantasybtskes way less effort with way less risk of rejection than the you that he's built in his fantasies; even if you're right there in front of him within breathing distance.
Normally, I'm Just A Big Dumb Jock, but I'm gonna get nerdy for a tick, because this illustrates what I mean better than I can explain it.
There are 2 Episodes of Star Trek TNG Where LaForge comes into contact with a Physicist, Dr Brahams. in the first episode the problem of the week lead Laforge to make a holodeck simulation of the doctor. he had her statistical info, but made up a personality out of whole cloth, and the computer played the simulation. its implied that over the next year he fired up that holder doctor many times. A year Later, when he has a chance to meet the real lady, she shatters the fantasy he built, which only got worse when she found out about the holodeck program. They ultimately were able to get past this issue. he saw the real person, she stopped being a stuck up bitch. but the point still stands, and is especially accurate, because in most situations, people never get past the destruction of their fantasies. so no, its not you.
TL;DR
Its not you. We as a whole have moved to a place where the lower stakes approach is preferable to actual effort, sadly.