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Yes. I can confirm that ‘sit at home and hope’ is not a recognized dating strategy.

I mean at the very least you need to be somewhere women can actually find you lol. OP makes it sound like if you get your life together a line of women will start knocking on your door.
You have to exist in the world to be found. Waiting for the right partner to come to you is unlikely to work. It may, it can, it sometimes does. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

Yeah, dating experience matters. It really helps you figure out what you actually want in a person and in a relationship, and how to set boundaries. And just like…how to actually date. It takes effort to keep momentum with someone, continually finding things to do together and working around someone’s schedule. I know someone who has been out of the dating scene for years and is reeeeally struggling with all kinds of parts of dating, having built unrealistic expectations for how it goes.

Oh you will. I never actively looked for a woman, they always kind of found me. And I’m neither rich nor especially attractive.