Yes, this always bothered me as well. It happens to annoy some physicists too, so there has been a resurgence of interest in alternative (less magical?) interpr

Yes, this always bothered me as well. It happens to annoy some physicists too, so there has been a resurgence of interest in alternative (less magical?) interpretations of quantum mechanics in the past decade. Perhaps the most striking is experimental evidence that particles follow "surreal" trajectories: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501466 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501466 There are other very interesting, and intuitive, features of this line of modeling. I think it's better to have a realistic mental model of the microworld even if the overall QM predictions aren't (obviously, yet) affected. Maybe there's more here than immediately obvious to the mainstream physics community.