I think a lot of criticism of AWALT stems from a basic misunderstanding (sometimes deliberate) of what it actually means. It doesn't mean that every single woman on the planet is exactly the same. Instead, AWALT is a statistical generalization based on the observed behavior of women in aggregate. Women as a group tend more towards hypergamy, AFBB, and other dynamics, than men do. You can find evidence of this from dating site statistics, marriage statistics, and a lot of other places. Since the distribution of these traits is normal, you'll find women who display a very low degree of hypergamy (although even this is probably more than men), and some who display a very high degree of hypergamy, with most women somewhere in the middle. The standard MGTOW argument has always been that it's foolish to dismiss a valid generalization based on anecdotal examples. It's theoretically possible to find unicorns if you look at the very leftward end of the distribution, but (a) the vast majority of women are not unicorns, so you're searching for a needle in a haystack, and (b) it's difficult to distinguish a unicorn from a woman who's merely acting to get something from you: many, many men have gotten burned by what they thought was a unicorn.