To me it reads like we just don’t understand it enough yet to describe it properly. We’re relentlessly told that states in the quantum world just don’t behave in a way that can be intuitively described, I don’t know near enough to dispute that, so I really don’t have much option but to accept it. Maybe you (me too) would just like things to be… neater(?)
I love minimalism, but dumbphones are not functionally minimal. They do less and seem “simple”, but you’re offsetting necessary utility elsewhere. Mostly they require making compromises that don’t need to be made if not for a little self-control.
A simple black rectangle is perfectly minimal. How you set them up is everything.