On the contrary, a series of groundbreaking experiments have demonstrated that Bell's Inequality holds, which is incompatible with any local hidden variable theory (and what you are saying here is a local hidden-variable theory.) Non-local hidden-variable theories are just as counter-intuitive as any of the conventional interpretations of quantum mechanics, which is not surprising, as they also have to satisfy Bell's inequality.

I have no opinion on what this says about free will, though I suspect that whatever it does, it is not much.

See, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAXxSKifgtU