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The fact that many laws are written to favor one form of relationship is just another data point that suggests that that form of relationship needed extra incentives for people to even consider it.
Also, in a sensible legal system I could name e.g. a doctor who is a personal friend as the one who makes health decisions for me even if they are not my romantic partner.
I think you've got it a bit backwards. Those things aren't written into law to make marriage more attractive, marriage is just an easy litmus test that you like your partner enough that you'd want them to have those things. As I said, the State will let you replicate a number of those things with legal instruments, but the State also says, if you trust this person enough to be legally bound to them (and responsible for their marital debts too) then we know you would also trust them with these other things so you get them without asking for them.
You have got that backwards. Liking your partner was a thing that was very late to the marriage party.
You're mixing other ideas now, muddying the waters if we're talking about present day events. I'm not arguing about structures of marriage of history long ago. Yes, marriage has historically been a subjection of women where they had few rights and even those usually flowed through the relationship with a wife's husband. Same sex marriage wasn't legal in any form back then. I'm not talking about then.
I'm talking about modern marriage. I'm talking about, lets say, the last 50 years. Birth control existed, women could vote and open bank accounts. The Civil Rights act barring discrimination based on sex (1964) being in full effect etc. Further, I'm talking post-Obergefell supreme court where same sex marriage is legal. All of the points I made in my prior post are in reference to modern day marriage.
But most of the laws regarding marriage weren't written in that time, they were written back when the legal situation was women could vote but you married a person from the surrounding five villages or neighborhoods or so that was roughly your age and you married for largely economic reasons. Divorce did not exist for the average person and marriages were for life even if they weren't particularly happy. Living together unmarried was considered sinful.
That is the very reason they use marriage as a catchall for relationships, cohabitation with a romantic partner, coparenting,... in legal texts instead of considering other options.