When the theories don’t explain reality, they build shaky additions on to the theories that wind up looking stupid.
True, but it’s been almost a century since the last big “paradigm shift” in science, so it may be that we are finally ready for a shake up.
I think sometimes we just have to wait for the old generation of scientists to die off before the younger ones who aren’t as set in their ways can step in and advance theories that take things in a new direction.