If you get married in the eyes of the law, which I feel is completely pointless

Marriage is important for societal cohesion. If nobody is attached to anybody society breaks apart.

Marriage keeps people together so they don't give up at the first sign of trouble. If everybody is only out for themselves and children have no parents society goes to shit.

Unfortunately progressives have turned marriage into a losing proposition for men. The left is a bunch of short-sighted morons who would destroy all of society to pat themselves on the back for some short-lived virtue signalling.