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.
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.
Perhaps the most striking is experimental evidence that particles follow "surreal" trajectories: 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.