I hear you bro and agree that courting a women and being generous is important. Howeve I am only talking about the first few dates where you are trying to decide if you fukk with the person like that or nah. Only in situations where you don't know the women too well and want to get to know her. I am also not saying not to be generous, in the OP I mentioned paying the tip and also I feel a man should still be chivalrous and pull out the women's chair and things like that as well.
As for divorce rates I feel you are wrong because in most marriages the male paid for the women's food due to social conditioning in the start of the relationship and they ended in failure. The man married her and found out he was with a greedy no good spoiled women who complained too much or worse and that's why they ended up getting divorced. If he didn't pay for her food in the beginning maybe he would have seen her character flaws and how she carried on cause she had to pay fer her own food and he would have not went down that road. Just a theory.
I like the future line you threw in your post though lmao
Future said it the best.