It just feels like a bunch of things that we've observed that don't all align and we've thrown in a bag.
An honest physicist would agree.
The important thing to them is they've come up with a mathematical model that is predictive to great accuracy. That is both interesting and useful.
But a mathematical model is still just a model, no different than metaphors for reality we create in our heads ... "it's a force that pushes," "it's a space that curves".
We're still Greeks trying to understand things we don't even really have words for for a universe we cannot experience directly except through the senses we have been given.