I just realized that the reason feminists target gender roles is that gender roles are way more valuable to males than females. Females are already very valuable even without a job because they are the gatekeepers to reproduction.

If the gender roles are removed females gain a distinct advantage over males. Males are no longer the valuable providers, and females become the providers and sole source of reproduction and effectively gain the most power in society.

A female's greatest strength is that reproductively speaking a female only produces one egg once a month while a male produces billions of sperm. This means that by the law of nature a few powerful men have the ability to impregnate most women.

The math is simply stacked in the worst possible way against anyone who is not an alpha male. Feminism tries to fix this alpha male supremacy imbalance at the expense of all males by trying to take away their roles in society.