Your post gives the impression that DATING is a “mandatory” ritual to be performed before marriage and somehow people who missed this ritual might be missing something wondful. Unfortunately this is not the case. If DATING was to avoid most of the post marriage conflicts by letting you choose compatible people, western marriages would have success ratio of 99.99%.
If by your post you mean people who have missed dating have missed some “exciting times”, then people who do date long before marriage miss soul of first night.
I had girl friends but not “gf” so I guess no I never dated and I like it like that ~~~