People do switch rites for that reason. One example I know of is Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, of Boston. He and his wife, Mary, who holds a Ph.D. from Boston College, are the parents of 13(!) children. He was previously a lawyer, a college professor, and a Catholic of the Western rite. Somewhere in the midst of all that career and all that fatherhood, he went seminary overseas and was ordained a Melkite (Eastern Catholic) priest.
Interesting family. When his daughter Benedicta was a toddler, she was miraculously healed through the intercession of St. Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), a miracle which was instrumental in her (Edith Stein's) canonization.
Should not a universal church have universal rules?