When Newton developed the theory of gravity it wasn't intuitive that all matter in the universe attracts all other matter. But also wasn't incompatible with our intuitions---it was learnable.
What I see in QM right now "smells" like we're having to compromise too many intuitions to reconcile what the experiments are showing us with the way we expect the universe ought to be working. I agree that the universe is under no obligation to work the way we expect it to---problem, what we have right now in QM is a lack of agreement on how to even rework our intuitions to match our observations and the reality the theory describes. That suggests to me that---much like epicycles, or like gravity being separated from acceleration before relativity---the stories we are telling ourselves about what we see are still too complicated, and a simpler explanation that requires us to sacrifice fewer pieces of intuition has not yet been reached.
This is, to be clear, extrapolation. I have no way to know whether such simplification exists or whether we have hit the boundary where nature actually refuses to conform in such a way to our senses and minds that we can change our intuitions to follow her. It's not impossible that this is the case. But if it is, it's a break from the pattern of physics discovery up to this point in human history.
Round Earth and heliocentrism were counterintuitive too and people struggled a lot to understand them, it's not unprecedented. Ironically Aristotle refuted heliocentrism with the same argument, that heliocentrism doesn't correspond to observation.
We have intuition to understand QM, people struggle with myths, not lack of intuition. Absence of conservation of energy is one of those myths, only those myths need to be sacrificed.
What I see in QM right now "smells" like we're having to compromise too many intuitions to reconcile what the experiments are showing us with the way we expect the universe ought to be working. I agree that the universe is under no obligation to work the way we expect it to---problem, what we have right now in QM is a lack of agreement on how to even rework our intuitions to match our observations and the reality the theory describes. That suggests to me that---much like epicycles, or like gravity being separated from acceleration before relativity---the stories we are telling ourselves about what we see are still too complicated, and a simpler explanation that requires us to sacrifice fewer pieces of intuition has not yet been reached.
This is, to be clear, extrapolation. I have no way to know whether such simplification exists or whether we have hit the boundary where nature actually refuses to conform in such a way to our senses and minds that we can change our intuitions to follow her. It's not impossible that this is the case. But if it is, it's a break from the pattern of physics discovery up to this point in human history.