Calling a girl on the phone definitely takes more commitment and can be seen as a date itself today.
Texting on the other hand is not the same and requires less energy. You can control the flow of the conversation when it comes to texting too.
I think the best thing is to remove as much technology from the initial stages of dating as possible. Limit the calls and texts to the absolute minimum. The absolute minimum is subjective.
Calling women on telephones is a fading art and has been for the last ~15 years. There are women today who are 35-40 years old who are not very conversant on telephones.
Once the early stages of dating have passed, I believe in more phone calls than text messages.
The idiotic rule of "ghost until the date" will cause more flakes than anything else.
There isn't a lot to discuss in between setting up the date and going on the date. I can see the value in the idea of keeping silent so as to not dissuade the woman from showing up on the date.
The biggest part of the problem is the lack of a face-to-face experience. Setting up dates from behind an electronic screen causes a whole host of issues that are not easy to navigate. I found the 'prospect warming' concept to be annoying. In general, I had poor experiences with tech-based methods of arranging dates and decided to only arrange first dates face-to-face.
I have had multiple women from swipe apps text me the day of the first date to confirm it was still happening. The woman that
@holidayad_ interacted with could have done this and all would have been well. Instead, she acted like a self-centered spoiled brat.
If a person is managing their in-person life well, they would not have a need for the tech-based dating methods, especially swipe apps.
It's very difficult to manage an in-person life well and meet enough prospects to get dates. This is more of a male problem than a female problem in offline dating. At some point, usually in their 30s-40s, women start getting approached less in real life and then turn to swipe apps for more options.
As a man, when I am in first date arranging mode, it feels like a 2nd job. It doesn't matter whether I am using apps, DMs, or doing in-person approaches. All are massively time consuming.