"To me, this is all about men avoiding reality and not getting mental health care, not men being left on the shelf because they don't have a million dollars and a six pack."

Bingo.

I have lived in East Asia and seen a lot of interethnic couples wherein the man is Western. Men I knew with local women were brilliant, thoughtful, handsome/cute, etc. — not likely to be Western "leftovers" by any means. However, I think some of them found Western relationships too intimidating: Western women have very healthy standards nowadays regarding emotional intelligence, communication, etc., and a huge percentage of men are not up to par on those very basic relational skills. (Remember that Psychology Today article that went viral in the summer on this topic?)

HOWEVER, many a man, rather than working on himself and getting into therapy so that he can engage with women from ANYWHERE as a full emotional adult, thinks it's easier just to find a woman who will be dazzled by his money and the clout of having a rich/foreign boyfriend. Herein, I think, lies a lot of the preference for foreign women: it's not about respecting these women as full and complex human beings or about seeking to establish as genuinely healthy relationship, so much as the men imagining that these women will be simpler to appease and less likely to leave them, as long as the cash is flowing. This doesn't mean the relationships that form are inevitably toxic (though I definitely saw some of those) or that either party is undeserving of love, but it certainly is a recipe for dysfunction.

Western women, meanwhile, aren't frustrated about this (it seems pretty clear the author is making click-baity generalizations to pander to these guys and stoke self-righteous resentment in them to build her brand) — because Western women don't wish we could be the ones to date the man-children. However, the Western women with whom I've talked about these kinds of relationships feel bad for both parties involved: the foreign women who don't realize they deserve better, and the men who can't figure out how to sustain (or can't even recognize) a healthy relationship.

Worse, the fact that so many women in the wider world are seduced by cashflows (for very understandable socioeconomic and cultural reasons) unfortunately feeds the flames of the red pill movement and their analogues: men with massive deficits in relational skills who can't get a Western woman on account of said deficits, realize that their money can purchase companionship among some communities abroad, and these guys therefore become convinced that money is all ANY woman cares about.... therefore concluding that the ONLY possible explanation for why they couldn't get a Western girlfriend MUST be that all women are shallow.

It's a mess. I wish the best to anyone in any relationship, and I'm glad for the relationships that are genuinely healthy, but I feel bad for everyone else who doesn't even realize they're settling — the men settling for empty connections based on money, and the women settling for unhappy dynamics with therapy-averse men..... and the women with healthy standards who get left out in the cold. Basically, parties stand to lose all around.

Sorry to write so much, but I think you hit the nail on the head with your comment about mental health. If therapy were more accessible and destigmatized all over the world, everyone would win.