I think most people can intuitively understand the observed behavior by thinking about the process as if the two particles had been "pre-programmed" to correlat

I think most people can intuitively understand the observed behavior by thinking about the process as if the two particles had been "pre-programmed" to correlate with each other at the time of entanglement. With that explanation, things seem pretty mundane, then it can be explained that even though the behavior appears like the particles have been pre-programmed, the nitty gritty of Bell's Theorem shows us that this isn't the case, and that's why it is so fascinating to scientists.