Follow the money. Who benefits from not allowing boys to call girls directly, and properly demonstrate that they’re capable of taking care of the girl as a wife and building a nest to raise a family. Who benefits from the insanity of the regulation upon regulation that now has “competent adults” making all of the (not only introductions, but) arranging the specific details of each DATE for the lovely incompetent couple?! Follow the money.
Shadchonim did not create the idea that boys and girls should not be in direct contact;
insistence on the use of shadchonim is not due to shadchonim lobbying our legislature.
(As far as I know, shadchonim don’t arrange the details of dates.)