Are HVAC men really just that busy or did I do something wrong?

I (26F) met Phillip (27M) 5 years ago on Tinder. We had dinner, went to his place, he played his guitar for me and we did the horizontal salsa. In my opinion, it was a great date.
He is an HVAC technician and I’m in the service industry. Our schedules are everywhere and it’s hard to get days to line up and I was an impatient person. We just went our separate ways.

I was then in a 4 year relationship that I believed would be my last, that then ended last year bc I needed to protect my values. I’ve been very quiet in the dating world really. I had a Tinder account but it was more of a boredom activity. I would swipe right on someone then just forget about the app for a couple day.
Flash forward to 2 months ago, I’m mindlessly swiping on tinder and I stop on Philips profile. I instantly recognize him and I swipe right. Boom 💥. Match. I sent a “ hey i remember you “ to which he promptly responded with some rendition of “i remember you too”. Great. So now we’ve moved to iMessage. start to talk about planning another date. He does inform me that he still does HVAC and Is very busy this time of year ( summer in the south) to which I’m very understanding. The planned date came around and he cancels bc he had a late day. Tried to plan another, then the same happened again.
He sent me this message verbatim “ Hey, just so you know, I’m not trying to lead you on, I really am just busy as fuck all the time but I do wanna see you again “ and I respect that of him so I’m happy to give him more opportunities. He went cold a couple of days later because a relative passed so I gave my condolences and gave him space, i told him that I would be here whenever he was ready. A few weeks went by and I reached back out . He informs me that a family friend passed away shortly after. I offer my condolences again and let him grieve.
I waited about a month to reach back out. I greeted him and asked if he was available anytime this week. He had an enthusiastic response of hopefully after work that day (spoiler: he did not) but if not then one of his off days (Thursday or Friday). I ,unfortunately, was scheduled on a double for both of those days and let him know so. Friday rolls around and I’m offered the night off. Taking a Friday night off in the service industry is genuinely impossible and honestly if I didn’t see this as an opportunity to meet this guy then I would’ve stayed at work. I informed him that I had the night off and he said, verbatim, “How nice! Depends on when I’m off. Still got a lot on my schedule.”…….. weird, I thought this was your off day, but I’m a glass half full kinda girl so now I’m throwing fits together waiting on a confirmation or not and 8pm rolls around and I hear nothing from him. 9pm I get on my tinder ( which has been collecting dust in the time since we matched) and I see that he has unmatched with me. I scroll through a few people and BOOM there he is again with an updated profile. It’s entirely possible that he had done that in the weeks of silence and not just recently. Now I’m making a decent little bowl of ice cream and wondering wtf is happening.

Am I reading the signs wrong?
Are HVAC men really that busy and should i give him more chances?