If both of you keep following the old outdated advice on this forum of texting or calling only to set up the date and to wait to hit them up after getting the number, then both of you will continue to fail. It's 2021 and women have a short attention span and have plenty of other men after them. You need to text here and there up until the date to build comfort and hold attraction. You also need hit them up the following evening after getting the number. Nowadays, you strike while the iron is hot. I've been on 100s of dates and have experimented doing things both ways.
I have also been on hundreds of dates just like you, have experimented doing things both ways, and will stick to low/no texting/calling going forward. YMMV of course, you do you, there is no one size fits all. The example I offered was how low texting/phone screens out Cluster B (about 25-40% of women today IME), when that works correctly, it is a success not a failure IMO, so calling it failure is an error. No lay is worth letting a crazy woman into my house or going to hers. Again, set your own boundaries as you choose.
To strain an often seen cliche here, do you think Brad Pitt worries about his "text/phone game?" Sure, for teens and young adults in college or young starting out, text/call away. I myself used texts to displace stacks of orbiters from high demand women 15 or so years ago but no longer, for me, it's effeminate and frivolous. For mature, established and busy professionals with options who are dealing with higher social/professional class women, I think texting can be minimized... especially until she invests in significant face time and is obviously into sex with me.