Tbh this just seems like a classic "my anecdote disputes the reality for many" without seemingly any qualifiers or nuance.

Nobody ever said it was impossible to buy a house in general in any geography with a sufficient salary and ability to service any amount of debt. In the city I live in, the ratio between median income and cost of any home was wildly, comically more favorable for boomers, to the point where if you aren't literally rich already, you need to go become a rare doctor and shack up with an L6+ engineer at booming tech company to pull it off, then maintain that income 'till it's paid off.

If two people want to get married or find it useful, they'll do so regardless, on that point we might agree, but many people in the past just did so because they accidentally got pregnant and might have felt internal or external pressure from family to get married and not abort. My grandparents were broke as hell and got married at their rural community center, that's just what people did then, they weren't about to stretch for something glamorous.

Many people now look at the decisions of their parents during whatever time it was, including with houses, and think "well this is what mom and dad did, and they're both broke and divorced now, so maybe lets not do that this time"

"L6+ engineer at booming tech company to pull it off,"

You sound like you live in California. Many that live here voted for the strict regulations on everything and social programs that have no led to insane taxes and minimum home costs of $1,000,000.

This starts to look like socialism where you end up with two economic classes: rich and poor.

"Many people now look at the decisions of their parents during whatever time it was, including with houses, and think "well this is what mom and dad did, and they're both broke and divorced now, so maybe lets not do that this time""

I suppose when two parents make bad life decisions, this is what your model is in life.