It's certainly possible to find such views in theoretical physics. But typically not from very serious people. In my understanding the big shift was the unders

It's certainly possible to find such views in theoretical physics. But typically not from very serious people. In my understanding the big shift was the understanding of renormalisation, Kadanoff and Wilson, around 1970. This took airy ideas about useful approximation and turned them into serious tools, which are both useful for everyday things and illuminating about why any of it works.