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Group #2 is much smaller than #1. Probably at most 10% of group #1. So why would you focus on #2? If you have a 1% converting success on both groups, you'll influence more people on #1. And in terms of society overall it's better if you don't have a large group of single males that are single and resentful towards society.
What you should do instead, is force women to lower their standards. Women are the gatekeepers here, and if you (somehow) convince them to date lower, which considering there are more educated women than men, will have to happen at some point, would work more towards solving this than anything.
Does it have to happen? What seems to be happening is that we are all turning into South Korea. Even developing countries are having collapsing birth rates. There seems to be nothing pointing toward women settling, their standards are sky high and climbing.
Especially middle income countries seem to be in free fall. Women in LATAM are seeing what the upper middle class in California have, and they aren't settling for Pedro in their village.
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And eventually both paths will result in the same number of single women pairing up.
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