This is a lie. A huge aspect of the Metoo movement was about street harassment and public harassment in general. Women wanted (non-attractive) dudes to leave them alone in public. So dudes went to dating apps. Now people are flip flopping and telling men the current trash ass dating environment is still their fault and they should "touch grass" now. Dudes actually listened to what the women wanted "stop talking to us in public...we don't owe yall nothing...damn, i just wanna go where i'm going without a man all in my face". Now we're at a place where people are trying to blame men for something women wanted.

I seen a video the other day where some dude was at a bar and he tried to approach a woman on the dance floor and her friend cockblocked him and the video labeled something about a "creep"...at a bar...on the dance floor. It was some average regular looking dude.
I don't blame any of these young dudes for playing it safe and sticking to dating apps nowadays.
The overwhelming majority of women will not have such an extreme response to a man talking to them respectfully.
What's truthfully happening to these men are so many different outlets are creating confirmation bias via viral videos and black pill content that distort their reality.
I'm not denying that there's truth to what you're saying, but what I am saying is that most women are not like that.
I'm saying this as someone who believed at one time saying hi to a woman would get me fired.
I saw several videos and content confirming my belief.
When I actually did it, I realized that's simply not true.
Videos of women overreacting to men's stares at the gym, videos of women saying they don't want to be approached because all men who do so are creepy, and content that says that men have to be a specific way in order to date women (I.E. Chad/Tyrone) confirms ideas they already believe and zaps any energy they might have in talking to women.
Combine that with no real life experience, or the only experiences with women being negative and that's a recipe for disaster.