Why do people who are boring and lack common sense / respectful social skills have a lot of friends?

I’ve noticed a pattern in my life, that people who are boring/dry with their responses in person (not elaborating much, responding with only one or a few words, talking without enthusiasm, not making eye contact, seeming overall disinterested in having conversation) tend to have lots of friends or at least loyal friends. When i and some others try to talk to such people they act like they don’t want to have conversation but people seem to like them even though they lack respectful social skills and give me nothing to work with in a convo. Meanwhile people tell me that I’m pleasant to be around and great at conversation and I’m also aware of how I come across to people so I make sure to make eye contact and ask appropriate questions regarding the Convo to show I’m interested in them as a person, but I rarely get the same energy from anyone back and as a result don’t have many friends, let alone loyal ones. It baffles me.

I’ve asked people who are older than me, people my age, and even therapists, and they are puzzled as well because they tell me nothing is wrong with how I socialize/talk to people. It’s like the more you do things “correctly” the more things don’t work. But the advice I see all the time is “make people feel good about themselves, be vulnerable and share about yourself when appropriate, have good sense of humor, be enthusiastic, be interested in the other person, etc” in order to make people interested in talking to you/make friends. And I’m doing all these things, but nothing seems to lead to meaningful connection or friendship. This happens even with people I have common interests with. Anyone experience this too or are wondering the same thing? Perhaps am I just surrounded by people who aren’t even decent in this regard?

**Also by “boring” I don’t mean it in literal sense but as in it’s like pulling teeth to have convo with them and they don’t give me much to work with, and like they don’t want to talk, like it’s as if they are bored of everything. Yet even though they are this way with everyone, including their friends, they still have lots of friends.