You make a lot of statements cloaked as a fact, when they are nothing of the sort. Actually NOTHING that you can surmise about the universe is a fact, it is simply your opinion of it.
The laws are not the universe, simply by virtue of you saying they are. There also is no "right" question about the universe and wrong question. You are sitting in a room, on a place in the earth, the same as everyone else is, pondering what you think seems to be true. You can think about what you feels makes up the universe, and what you feel is reality, but it is no more valid, and carries no more weight than what anyone else thinks.
The "laws" of the universe appear to be intelligently crafted. They have consistency, they have order, they have contingencies with other laws that allow require precise conditions-in a word there is order, not chaos. Chaos is the opposite of laws, the opposite of consistency, the opposite of predictability. To say that things are consistent, that they are predictable, that they have some form of order to many people's minds displays a purpose, an organization, a construction. I don't know how one comes to the philosophical perspective that you do, that one can just say 'they just are what they are" and that this somehow dismisses the necessity to explain how or why things came to be as they are.
To my mind that is a mental cop-out. It is an admission that trying to place understanding of the whole being of our cosmos is not worth one's time, so we just ignore the order, we ignore the consistency we ignore the organization of laws, by saying it is the wrong question. Its not the wrong question! Its the question intellectually curious men seek, to understand why all of the world around us displays a type of order that is not chaos.
The most logical explanation, to my mind, is that someone or something has arranged for these series of laws. I know this because my mind can imagine both chaos and order, and it can differentiate from the two, and in the experience of my mind order comes from arrangement, from control, from direction, whilst chaos comes from a lack of arrangement, a lack of control, a lack of input.
What we see, what many people see is a type of order, and the most logical explanation for order is input, arrangement: call it what your mind is willing to, a force, a super-natural input, a creator, a God...it all depends on how much one is willing to open or close their eyes to the world we see.