None of what you say contradicts that HEP Theory is in a crisis. That word was thrown around before the LHC confirmed the Standard Model, it's become more acute

None of what you say contradicts that HEP Theory is in a crisis. That word was thrown around before the LHC confirmed the Standard Model, it's become more acute since. The crisis is that the foundational ideas about how to make progress in physics: Elegance, beauty, naturalness, symmetries... are not yeilding any insights on the questions you raise. And yet CERN still argues that HL-LHC is important for detecting supersymmetry in their press release today. The technical core of Hossenfelders argument is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02176 https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02176