Also, even though I am a theoretical physicist myself, and I don't properly understand what people in other fields of physics are doing most of the time unless

Also, even though I am a theoretical physicist myself, and I don't properly understand what people in other fields of physics are doing most of the time unless I spend non-trivial amount of time on it. That's not because they're charlatans; physics is on the hardest subject mankind has been dealing with, and it is truly hard. But it is open, you and anyone can learn it, if you spend enough time learning. Expecting to understand particle physics all over without spending years and learning all the math you need is naive, and you shouldn't blame physicist. Nobody can make nature or maths easier for you, it's just how things are. I honestly don't know how to explain nature without the gritty math. Apparently, maths is the language nature can be understood. I don't know how I can seriously explain how electricity, magnetism, weak and strong forces work, and how they are intricately related without going into gauge fields, relativity, Lie-group symmetries, quantum fields and partial differential equations, infinite path integrals or operator algebras for example. I can't even explain a fundamental thing like what a boson or fermion is properly without a background in field theory, let alone go into anyons, or how they might be related by a deeper symmetry of nature called supersymmetry. It's not like pulleys and levers that you can infer from your daily experience and hope to understand it more or less by the time you finish your cup of coffee.