Hi Sean! I sympathize with some of the points you make. However, my issue with research in foundations of QM is that the focus often doesn’t seem to be on whether the various “interpretations” make different experimental predictions. I don’t know the answer, but if it is no, then is it physics?

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat obituary: mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world Pioneer of general relativity and gravitational-wave theories saw her work confirmed by observations 65 years later.

Obituary: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923-2025) mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world

https://go.nature.com/3HtgQpy