I've never liked sending text messages. I prefer face-to-face communication, video calls, or voice calls. I would have said the same thing circa 2010 when text messaging was newer and fewer people had smartphones.
I've gotten better at text game, but it's still hard. For a teen-to-teen they are very similar, but if you're dealing with girls from different ages and cultures, it's hard to read/guess them based om a "hi" and a profile picture or so. But maybe that's a poor excuse: it's possible to have great text game still, some do.
Mature women are more ok with just use it for setting up a date. They're more mature, less scared, and less entrenched in the the internet world, and hence ghost less on quick moves on text.
So: I used to follow the idea that "texting is only for logistics", but I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't hold: girls/women expect texting, especially if they're younger. Texting is one boss one needs to pass.
I see it as that a woman relates to two things: the real me, and her projection of her idea of a man (good/bad, fears, expectations). I need to please/soothe both those. Different meetings have different degrees of this, where a physical meeting is to a large degree me, while when texting she's mostly relating to her own projection. One needs to win/convince both using one's real person, and convince/extinguish her projection.