Excuse some potential ignorance of the terms here (I'm not a physicist), and possibly misremembering my history, but is this really incredibly surprising? BBC m

Excuse some potential ignorance of the terms here (I'm not a physicist), and possibly misremembering my history, but is this really incredibly surprising? BBC mentions supersymmetry seeming "old hat" with younger physicists, is it going the way of the Copenhagen Interpretation? My knowledge is that, historically, physicists have expected symmetry and love it when it seems to be there, but have been let down because reality shows itself to not be quite fully symmetrical in ways they hoped. They supposed there was reflection symmetry, but nope. Then the combination of charge and parity, but CP-symmetry is also broken. CPT-symmetry has held up but there has been some recent evidence in the past few years suggesting even that is wrong, which is somewhat disturbing to me. From my armchair I'm beginning to wonder if grand-symmetry-searchers are going to end up like the people who expect to go a level beneath quantum and find reality is really classical after all.