I mean that's great and all, and I'm sure you're a nice person, but irrespective of how you justify it, it's still unacceptable for a recruiter to ghost candidates.

Having been ghosted a few times I now refuse to deal with recruiters whatsoever.

The negative reputation that recruiters have is both entirely of their own making and entirely within their means to remedy. The fact that recruiters as an industry aren't trying to address this just drives home the perception that you see job candidates as a fungible commodity.