There are other problems with the theory too, they probably weren't solved perfectly by whatever SUSY model your supervisor was working on so they got less atte

There are other problems with the theory too, they probably weren't solved perfectly by whatever SUSY model your supervisor was working on so they got less attention. But ultimately, yes. The entirety of modern physics is largely borne out of the unwillingness to accept the the world is simply as it appears and that there's no deeper unifying principles.