Even if he’s Mediterranean or Balkan looking, he could take a hit. TBH, I think men overrate the Nordic look for men and women aren’t as attracted to your Nordic dream hunk as much as we think they are. The safe bet is Anglo-Saxon/British isles origin.
Still the point is we don't know anything beyond what he is choosing to share about himself. He only gives a limited amount of information so you can only deduce and speculate that you are not getting the whole story. For example, if things are that bad that he had had to use an escort in the past for experience, despite having the "checkmark" looks qualities, then it means a couple of things: He is only interested in dating 7+ Stacie White women who have tonnes of options and he's coming across as too mediocre to them relative to their other options, or he's omitting certain information where his looks is not as up there as he is claiming he is.
From what he has said, he is limiting himself allot on the dating market by choosing to only going after Stacies. They are going to refuse to date other races of women apart from White (ie even
@Hamurabimbi, who is White, has allot of action from ethnic women and he's SHORT). That means he is going to refuse to use any JBW advantage even if he has it (commendable I guess), and he has only a very limited pull on the target women that he is interested in pursuing. He may not be getting his target women because deficiencies in his looks, which would more reflect in unchangables (ie unless he gets plastic surgury) like his face, how much he deviates from the ideal Nordic look and might look Mediterranean/Balkan, etc.... However, I agree with your post, but that only works if you are not just going after 7+ Stacies?