It's disappointing to see tired cliches about gamers being socially awkward. I personally would consider people who go out socialising in bars and creeping on women there to be far more socially awkward than those who stay at home playing video games. There seems to be a misconception that gaming means you don't socialise, when in reality you're spending literally every moment of your gaming experience socialising with friends. Opening up to them, talking to them every day for hours on end, sharing and laughing together. But apparently they're more socially awkward than your average non gamer 18-21 year old hitting the bars with their wing men looking to get their dick wet and never text her again. Or the nations youth that grew up as chavs hanging around in their male circles drinking cider in parks and bragging/completely bullshitting about who lost their V card first or talking about how they just discovered porn and who they want to smash at their school prom and accusing each other of being gay casually as an insult. As somebody said further up, we are far past gaming being a geek thing now. It's completely mainstream.
Having and maintaining a healthy relationship is not something specific to gaming, it's something specific to human beings full stop in an era of unrealistic expectations due to porn, body positivity, increased activism on issues like sexual assault, meetoo, harrassment, LGBTQ+ rights, microaggressions and society generally becoming more tolerant and more inward looking of it's historical practices that we're revising over time. Gaming is simply an alternate way of passing time, to other activities like sport, house parties etc. None of those things have the first thing to do with making sure you grow up being better with women and so the fact that people are spending time gaming is irrelevant because the alternatives wouldn't teach them anything different and in some cases would even perpetuate the problem. People who have never touched a game in their life are still excessively consuming porn for instance. Kids who are great 'socially' and who are going out to parties and meeting people regularly are still getting drunk and leery with girls because of raging hormones, and a social circle that encouraged the 'banter' and the consumption of porn etc. It's an issue that applies to everybody no matter your hobby and should be an educational focus in your younger years.
Leave kids to their own devices growing up and no matter if they game, go out partying, hang about with their mates in the park, play football or practice a martial art and they'll use their social circle as sound boards for their ideas and objective morals. None of those things are going to teach them any different - that's where we need to come in and really make a difference by exposing them to the impact of the wrongs of the past.