There's a third option, which historically arose out of the issues you describe with your first approach. This is to deny that quantum theory is a description o

There's a third option, which historically arose out of the issues you describe with your first approach. This is to deny that quantum theory is a description of an objective, observer-independent reality. Rather it is a kind of "personal rule book" which informs an agent's beliefs about future interactions with the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.5209.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.5209.pdf