I completely agree, and I would say that's probably the historical origin of the Copenhagen interpretation. It was clearly initially a note-to-self that somethi

I completely agree, and I would say that's probably the historical origin of the Copenhagen interpretation. It was clearly initially a note-to-self that something wasn't right and required figuring out, and somewhere along the line that confusion became an axiom that later generations just accepted, not getting the message that it was unfinished. Physicists aren't dumb, but they just haven't looked into it more because it's surprisingly not relevant to the majority of work. So they're just repeating the confusion of past generations as if it's fact. But, particularly in my field, we're getting seriously good at manipulating more and more exotic quantum states. I'm working on things involving 'weak' measurement, where you really need to know what counts as a measurement or not, and how much - you can do a partial measurement and only partly (appear to) collapse a wavefunction. These types of experiments are becoming more are more common, and it's happened a few times now that I've heard people saying "hang on, what counts as a measurement in this context?" and then having to read a decoherence textbook in order to do their atomic physics. With these sorts of things as well as quantum computers, decoherence and the measurement problem is intruding into a larger proportion of people's work, which means repeating the mantra of the previous generation isn't going to cut it anymore, people are going to actually read decoherence textbooks and decide for themselves.