HAHA, saw the "boomer" remark. Nope. Putting that on one particular generation is, respectfully, way off base and short sighted. Sorry but those ancient attitudes for finding someone go back hundreds if not thousands of years when people only lived to their 30's and if you wanted to have children to: work the farm or propagate more royalty, you'd better tie the knot. Each evolved culture deals with it differently and every evolutionary turn changes it.
Humans are animals. As we moved passed needing nothing more than food, water, shelter and procreating to needing internet and D&D while still procreating, it got more and more complicated. We also started thinking instead of just acting on instinct.
Then tribes and religions got mixed in and governments and other people handing down rules and regulations etc. that fit their own agenda, and people telling you what's attractive and what's not (check out mating rituals in different cultures from primitive to advanced as to what "attractive" is)
Then people came up with the soulmate idea. I have one. We joke about it all the time, I'm straight female, he's gay. But the two of us fit together like the old cliche of a hand in a glove.
Frankly, you're never too old to date, if you like to do it. It's not the dating that's in question... it's what happens after it. Are you dating to eventually propagate, to find someone to "settle down" with (marriage or live together), or to simply get together with someone you like and have a good time.
Whether you're 18 or 80, it's basically the same, you're out to have a good time with a friend, if the friend turns into something more... terrific. If not, so what? As I said, humans are animals and social animals that usually work better in a group, call it a pride, a pack, a tribe, whatever, existing within a group (of two or twenty) is natural to us at our core.