I can speak to this from experience. A variety of guys.
The first are your social guys with good game and a great vibe. I do not mean PUAs or pickup weirdos, I mean guys you can chat with who leave you with good vibes and can make girls feel good as well. These guys can form a social circle fast and yes, they have some money too.
The other are guys who are HER TYPE. Every girl has a type. For example, she might like Hispanic men so even a Hispanic 7 is better than a white 10 to her or vice versa. Being her type is so huge and that is why I tell guys to go for girls who are likely to go for them.
The other are guys who are in the right place at the right time. I am talking the right circles when she is looking.
Then you have guys who are just superior in every way, just on paper and even with game and social skills.
I know we hype up things like SMV and it does matter, you have to be at your best, but luck and timing are just as big for game as SMV are. Put a high value dude in a crap market and he will underperform.
You make some excellent points. Attraction is a product of multiple factors, which are weighted differently for every girl.
I would compare attraction to motorsport. What does it take to win a race? Being a good driver (i.e. game) certainly helps. So does having a fast, reliable, well-handling car (this would be analogous to good looks/genetics). A competent pit stop team (i.e. social circle) is also important.
At the extreme ends of the spectrum, it's pretty easy to predict who is
likely to win. A good driver in a fast car with a great team has infinitely better odds than a poor driver in a slow car with a pit stop team made up of the morbidly obese. But what happens when you start mixing those factors? Would a good driver in a slow car triumph over a mediocre driver in a faster car? Maybe, maybe not. Would a champion driver in a fast car lose precious seconds at the pit stop because his team sucks and get overtaken by lesser drivers? It's possible.
And then you have something called luck.You could have everything seemingly lined up (great driving skills, brilliantly engineered car, great team) and still lose the race for some totally random reason, such as a tire blowout, oil spill on the track or someone crashing into you (i.e. c0ckblocking). In real life, things are rarely black and white.