I have done this, for years, and I cannot recommend it.
After my last LTR I decided to just "eat cake" and "let the chips fall where they may" without consciously seeking out women. I thought this was a good idea, because - after all - my number was already quite high, while I was really seeking a much deeper connection. So, my thinking was that if I just stopped seeking, she'd float to me one day like a piece of wood at the beach. Of course, that never happened... So here I am lol!
What I did was to delve more into work, in order to forget, which isn't good. Since my goal was just to be comfortable and eat cake and then coast all other places in life, I got fat. And since I was getting older I wasn't getting any more handsome either. So now I got less free attention from girls than ever... Which also wasn't positive. At some point, I had enough, and decided to get back on the horse again.
The first thing I changed was to start dieting and working out. I fixed my diet as much as I could (there are still some things I can't live without lol), and then I went hard-core to the gym. I also started doing much more cardio. Suddenly, I'd got some female attention for free again. Second is I took Brent Smith's philosophy more seriously, and started socializing in a way more active way than before, while eschewing the most egregious PU tricks. Perhaps also because I have internalized a lot of that stuff anyway idk, but at least I like the idea of being subtle lol.
I'd already had some success with Brent Smith's philosophy before this dumb experiment, so I decided that's the way to do it. It's kind of "anti PU" but not really. Hard to explain, you just gotta see it as an alternative, I guess. You're keeping it very social, but actually kind of passive in terms of pickup, so you more easily spot those women who are truly worth investing in for the longer term, instead of being this desperate dancing monkey. I mean, you can ofc also use it for hookups, no problem, if you know other fundamentals, but that just isn't my goal these days.
OTOH I've started practicing hardcore NOFAP, to the point of avoiding even dirty thoughts. And porn is of course a huge no-no, but mostly for scientific reasons, and how it damages your brain's reward systems. This actually seems to help. Like, I tried it before, and I didn't see a result from it, but these days I do it a bit differently. You have to be in close proximity to hot girls very often to really see the result. And when you get it, it's the closest thing to magic you'll ever experience as a man, I'm fairly sure. Like, I've had women try to isolate me, kiss me out of the blue, stuff like that, just by casually interacting with them. Also, when you do "feel" some mutual attraction, that's when you let it all go, and let all those dirty thoughts come to you, and visualize her naked, until you just can't keep your hands off her. You will know if she reciprocates anyway, because she'll be compliant and want to be alone with you. (If she doesn't then ofc put your balls in some ice water or something lol.)
I've also had incidents where just staying in proximity to certain women, well... There's no good way of saying it, but it gave me a freaking uncontrollable hardon. And in quite public and awkward situations too! But hormones don't lie, and neither does mirror neurons. That's your sign that you gotta isolate and escalate. Now, I usually frequent quite conservative circles these days, so even public affection is very uncommon, and then only between known couples. But saying that, you notice really fast if a woman wants you to join her outside, say for some "fresh air". I mean, the sweetest thing I've ever heard a woman say to me, is this cute French girl whispering "Je suis chaude", later explaining to me that it just meant that she felt hot... (It doesn't, it means that you're horny lol! Freudian slip from her lolol.)
So yeah, I can highly recommend refraining from releasing your sexual power until you're actually in proximity of women, and then turning it to 11. But otherwise, I think the idea of keeping away from women is pretty dumb in terms of finding The One, or just getting more hookups in general. You gotta keep meeting them (but it's better if you stop beating it).
