It’s not an imposition on an unmarried man. The Minhag is to have our Shat”z (for Mussaf on Y”K but it spread from there to all Yomim Noraim) be as similar to the Kohen Gadol as possible. One of those requirements was to be married (that’s a Din D’oraisa). So the Minhag developed to have a Shat”z be married. I’m sorry if you don’t like that as a single, but the fact that singles will feel bad about it is not enough to be Mevatel a Minhag that old.
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