What rules are you talking about?
I don’t think so called nice guys are the root of the problem. Woman who chase aholes are part of the problem as well. Anyone who uses people for their own gain without any regard for the other person is like a cancer in the dating pool. I’m not saying everyone has to be super agreeable and accommodating, but selfish and hurtful people are like the polyester of potential mates.
From my perspective living and trained both as a child in my tribal art as a hunter/warrior and later in my teens studying away from the jungles into the city, and then making a living in a modern environment.
There's one fact that's undeniably the truth; women's nature has been basically very much the same throughout history. In my tribe or in the cities or in different countries they are very much the same. Their selfishness, extreme wants, frivolity etc. I believe it's there to ensure the survival of humanity.
So if women's nature is the same regardless of time and place then what has changed?
It's the men that has changed. Modern city men has neither the skill nor the training to be manly.
Now there's just too many "nice" guys walking around, trained by their mom's and even at school by a mostly female teaching staff. Boys at school nowadays do not get corporal punishment for misbehaving neither do they get it at home - can you see what I see?
I can list a multitude of problems that afflicts men in general.
In the end mens problems lies with men. It has never been abt women.
The modern men has become soft, feminine like in character, their unwillingness to dismiss, their lack of leadership at home and with women has in turn had an effect on women, their children and society at large.
I say this fully knowing and living in both divides of a civilization.
There are some families that the males keep to their traditional male values and pass it off to their sons - but it's a dying breed even in my surroundings.
The "Red Pill" and "Hypergamy" that has most "nice" guys here gushing and writing poem's abt is sickening.