Hi John,
It is deceitful to only or mostly use filtered pictures. Yes, it does imitate what catfishes do online. Misrepresentation and deceit is a major part of the catfish’s playbook.
Your frustration is duly noted.
Many of these women aren’t confident in how they truly look in real life. They believe that using filters on their dating profile gives them the best chance of finding the best mate.
You have now had enough experience in this that you should be able to tell what dating profiles are using filtered pictures.
Use your knowledge of what filtered pictures look like to filter out these bad candidates, so that you don’t keep finding yourself going on date after date that result in disappointment.