A lot of people have chosen worse criteria. If they are serious and play for keeps, I wish them all the best.
It wasn’t that long ago that many were married in this way with the parents playing the part of the sociologist. This was good and bad: Good because the parents had a deep bond with the children and had a vested interest in the children’s long-term happiness, bad because the prospective spouse’s finances and other things that affected the parents’ own long term well-being could tend to play an outsized role.
I agree, even today a lot of Indian marriages are based on this. I mean there is some interaction, but mostly the parents want to make sure your not some loser, that you have a job , good family history etc...
like you said good and bad.