Perhaps experience for finding dates through dating apps is similar to finding dates in night clubs.
I wonder , if percieved level of anonymity (chances are you will not run into that person in your daily life) and appearance of abundance (if this person is not ideal, we are quick to move on), makes one less accountable (hence prominence of ghosting).
Apps give perception that you get to know the person before going on a date, setting it apart from meeting a random person in a nightclub and appealing to women.
But the flip side is that those dates don't carry the same level of obligation to another human being as meeting a date though friends/school/work would have, hence carry potential for highly unpleasant experience for women.
So, perhaps it's not about elite group of men, but about level of risk taking that makes women uncomfortable.