Given how different people can be from each other, there's not necessarily a wrong way to date.
Ideas that would seem tacky or uninteresting to one potential partner might be exactly what someone else is looking for. And while some may expect you to pay when they go out to eat, others may find it easier or more desirable to simply split the bill.
So when people share what they prefer to do on dates, there's always going to be some debate. But because most people don't pull the move that one man on the outs decided to try, that debate was particularly lively this time around.