Wanting to cancel a date

To preface: I’d (f24) like a partner but I’m also open to dating someone short term (a fling maybe lol). I’m new to my city (Chicago), don’t know anyone other than 2 college friends, and I go out much less frequently than I usually prefer (2-3x a month) due to my schedule or not having anyone to go with me, so I don’t really have many opportunities to meet someone in the wild. Thus, I’m reluctantly on hinge.

After a few weeks, I’ve had a good amount of matches, none have ever led to anything outside of conversation though. This week, I matched with a guy (m26), we had good back and forth, so, on Thursday, we arranged a date for tomorrow.

I was excited about when we were messaging about it but now that some time has passed, I have not at all been excited and am kind of dreading it. The guy seems nice enough and we have interests in common, but I’m not enthusiastically attracted to him, like if 0 was “meh” and 10 was love at first sight I’d say I’m at a solid 5.5 with him (which is not at all a rating of him, just how attracted I feel based on my own preferences). I think it’s easier for me to be attracted to someone that I already have a friendship with and while I understand that going through the motions with a stranger to get to that point is necessary, the prospect of doing that feels draining (like a job interview or being left alone with a friend of a friend). I guess what I’m saying is I’m kinda worried it’ll be an underwhelming date and find myself not wanting to go anymore.

I guess I’m here to ask if I should cancel or suck it up and see it through. Or just give me general advice/opinions on the situation that aren’t “why would you agree to a date you don’t want to go on” because idk it’s more complex than that. Or maybe I do need to hear that, the criticism might help idk I’m very conflicted