There is no such thing as 'love' at first sight. You can be attracted, turned on, or even infatuated at first sight, but love requires a lot more. You cannot love someone without knowing who they are.
The oldest mentions of love at first sight in Greek Myth are explained as sudden desires felt after being struck by Cupid's Arrow. It has always represented lust and desire rather than love. But over time it started getting wrapped up in the garb of love to meet social norms.
In modern-day romances, two people may find themselves deeply attracted to each other at first meeting. This is followed by more encounters or one of them taking the step to contact the other. The two people start dating. They fall in love and eventually decide to be in exclusive long-term committed relationships.
Due to the whole mythos surrounding "love at first sight", they mistakenly attribute their current state of love to the original state - the first encounter. While the current state is a progression of the first state, it is not correlated or caused by the first state.
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