RE: Day game instructors are shutting down their web sites
Game did create attraction. Also, most PUAs used to apply approach tactics to create attraction.
There was a time, from early 2000s to around 2012, when game did make a girl, who was initially not interested in you, become attracted to you. Approaching and talking with confidence, implementing a little bit of humour, laying out keen observations and being witty would turn the girl towards you. In fact, there was an even earlier time when just approaching a girl with confidence, in spite of your very average or subpar looks, made you stand out to a girl and made her feel attracted to you. Girl's curious instincts would take over. She would value your confidence way above your looks. At that time many guys, some with great looks, just did not know how to approach or talk. You stood out because you had the balls to make a move. Most social dynamics took place in the real physical world.
During the peak 2000s game era, PUAs who were 6 would get girls who were 8s or even 9s. That's why newbies who picked game up during that era , in spite of spam approaching, actually had success. That is also what led to the huge popularity and sudden proliferation of game and PUAs.
The issue today is that the cultural dynamics have completely shifted. The laws of attractions have changed. You can be a male 8 and a girl 7 might consider you completely unattractive as she is used to attention from 1000s of males online including Chad 9s or males with very high value. Therefore, in the current era, she will just not be interested in talking to you, regardless of how good your game skills are. You can be charming, socially intelligent, a smooth talker, dressed well and extremely fit. You just won't meet her pre programmed standard.
In today's Western world, women judge sexual attraction towards a man based more on his looks. Furthermore, women use sexual attraction as one of 'the' keymarkers now for basic attraction. Their senses are daily bombarded with pictures, comments, Insta/snap stories and media shows from physically very attractive men. It is similar to how constant watching of porn shapes and defines our attraction towards females. The more we watch it, the more we get attracted to certain body types. It is plainly the rewiring of the brain. That is what happens with females too. The dating apps are purely based on photos. They have shaped the brains of females and defined attraction for them. Not to mention, because of such apps and social media, the female access to high SMV men has significantly become easier and exponentially increased.
Hence, you, being a male 8, would be competing for a female 7's attention against a plethora of 9 males who would also be Investment bankers, athletes, musicians, pilots, firefighters etc. These men will also see her on Insta/Tinder/Bumble etc. These men are also horny and even more thirstier because they think their high value should get them pussy at a drop of a hat. They also do not need nor would bother putting efforts in learning game and spam approaching when just a spam 'Hi' on Instagram will net them a 7.
Blame the current era, culture, politics and manipulation of technology. Not the PUA or Game.