That bugs me also, there were abundance of unexplained findings while QM being developed. They were weeding out theories. Now the things we are looking for requires international efforts like CERN for finding Higgs. We won't have any better unless some one finds a way to make smaller accelerators and better detectors.
Why thank you, Mr. Science Communicator. Such a tremendous insight that all I needed was a mindset to find, eh, quantum field theory?
(Apologies for the sarcasm, but - really?)
(Also: no disrespect intended to (other) science communicators.)