Yes i’ve noticed in these stories, love or even affection never comes up. The legacy of an age where people have learned to relate through electrons instead of human warmth.
Wealth has always been a motivator. Marriage has almost always been an economic arrangement. This is not in dispute.
If you want a check on the traditional attitude, consider the novels of Jane Austen. The attitude there is most definitely “realistic”, not all that romantic. There certainly aren’t dominated by dreamy obsessions.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”