This is somewhat my fear too. But, I can't say it would put me off entirely. Special Relativity could easily be dismissed with a few simple contradictions unt

This is somewhat my fear too. But, I can't say it would put me off entirely. Special Relativity could easily be dismissed with a few simple contradictions until you look at it closer and realize there's a reconciliation. QM itself is also fairly hairy beyond very specific ideal cases, yet it's the most successful scientific theory in history. Maybe you could start off with some idealizations (a la particle in a 1D box) and perhaps some interesting limits arise. And maybe those limits could be extended statistically. Or not.