That is one position, yes, although surprisingly not all that common among working scientists, because it's often seen as too skeptical of a position. The strong version, "instrumentalism", boils down to roughly: science does not discover any "truths" about the universe, but rather is just a process of building mathematical models that correctly predict observations. And we can say little else about these models except that they predict experimental data accurately so far. In particular, in this view, we cannot say that any components of the mathematical models are necessarily physically "real" or in any strong sense "explain" reality, merely that they correctly predict observed regularities.
Despite not being that popular a view among scientists generally, it is however a fairly popular view among quantum physicists, many of whom aren't that willing to commit to the physical reality of a good deal of the mathematical apparatus of QM.
"A simplified but useful picture of the goal of scientific research is that scientists obtain large amounts of data about the world via observation and experiment, and then try to find regularities and patterns in that data.
But a regularity or pattern is nothing more or less than a method for compressing the data: if a particular pattern shows up in many places in a data set, then we can create a compressed version of the data by describing the pattern only once, and then specifying the different places that the pattern shows up. The most compressed version of the data is in some sense the ultimate scientific description.
There is a sense in which the goal of all science is finding theories that provide ever more concise descriptions of data."
This. Also like to add that when people talk about a theory being nice or natural, they are saying that they find it easy to compress because it looks in some respects like theories they already know.
Despite not being that popular a view among scientists generally, it is however a fairly popular view among quantum physicists, many of whom aren't that willing to commit to the physical reality of a good deal of the mathematical apparatus of QM.