You still seem to be out of touch with reality: this actually happens to people. Maybe you're in an HN bubble or something, but people get budgets wrong all the time across all age groups.
And this is exactly my point, people delude themselves into thinking the inverse is true, and that only Real™ adults don't make mistakes, only Real™ adults are whole people who are educated and understand the nuances of dietary requirements (despite the Western population as a whole increasingly becoming fatter and showing little to no understanding of eating within healthy caloric homeostasis) and understanding budgeting and appropriate labor value over time (despite the average US personal savings rate being near all time lows).
I never said people don't get budgets wrong. I merely said it's reasonable to try to prioritize dating people who can sensibly budget according to their income and their cost of goods and services in their area. It shouldn't be a consistent problem that you run out of rent money because you didn't budget for paying rent. I think you're misunderstanding my words because you're conflating these sets of preferences like some kind of demand for idealized humans. I think I'm pointing out that people's desires aren't unreasonable and exaggerating them is just strawman behavior.
Savings rates being at all-time lows doesn't mean that people don't know how to budget. It might be that budgeting has become much harder. Similarly, I don't think someone being fat means they don't understand how to cook a healthy meal. It might be that keeping thin has become much harder.
And this is exactly my point, people delude themselves into thinking the inverse is true, and that only Real™ adults don't make mistakes, only Real™ adults are whole people who are educated and understand the nuances of dietary requirements (despite the Western population as a whole increasingly becoming fatter and showing little to no understanding of eating within healthy caloric homeostasis) and understanding budgeting and appropriate labor value over time (despite the average US personal savings rate being near all time lows).