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You are right, but I think there is a more positive viewpoint.

All experiments agree with the many worlds interpretation (again, better described as a quantum web interpretation), and it is the plain Occam's Razor interpretation.

No additional flourishes are needed. That is strong theoretical support. It is the default (plain reading) interpretation already.

And it is the interpretation that doesn't just conserve in one history (i.e. conservation of energy etc.), but conserves information universally.

So again, very strong specific theoretical support.

It is the conjectures about experimentally unmotivated elaborations, like "collapses", that would also break universal conservation of information, for no theoretically necessary reason, that need dramatic new evidence to prove themselves.

If I lack any optimism, it is for conjectured complications with no evidentiary support and weaker explanatory/conservation powers. In any other context, nobody would be entertaining the need for such conjectures.

The "Quantum Collapsers" are right up their with the "Flat Earthers", or solar system "Epicycle Theorists", for not being happy with accepting a working and successful theory as is. Even though their imagined shivs introduce more questions than they answer, and would dispense with its unique advantages.

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