Proud Tatty is correct.
1. The Gedolim obviously acknowledged there is a shidduch crisis. This is obvious to anyone who can see. There are too many older singles. The Gedolim did NOT say the shidduch crisis is the age gap. They said there is a crisis. And if you marry “older” girls you help alleviate the crisis. This is obvious and common sense, as well as nothing to do with the age gap.
3. The Gedolim did NOT say girls should wait to be older to get married. The Gedolim praised a bochor who marries an “older” girl who already is in that matzif, as that will alleviate the crisis.
And like proud tatty said, the Gedolim nowhere said the freezer is bad or to prevent bochurim from going to Eretz Yisroel for 3rd year Beis Midrash. So lets not put words in their mouths; including claiming so-called “off the record” conversations.