Carroll says essentially this exact same thing in most of his podcast episodes and his dozens of talks and interviews. I don't think there's any sensationalism

Carroll says essentially this exact same thing in most of his podcast episodes and his dozens of talks and interviews. I don't think there's any sensationalism here. He is indeed saying that the public's impression of QM as inscrutable and mysterious is basically right, in this current scientific climate, and that, even worse, many physicists want to keep it that way.