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On the flip side of this, superdeterminism (that we have absolutely no free will at all) is a third way of explaining Bell inequality violations (apart from Copenhagen and hidden variables), but essentially everyone in the physics community refuses to consider superdeterminism seriously.

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It's not that they don't take it seriously -- it's that it's boring and says nothing useful. Yes, everything could be a giant conspiracy that makes it appear as if the standard ways of approaching quantum mechanics are simple, nice, and right, but ...

That's not what superdeterminism would indicate at all.

"Conspiracy" indicates free will on a large number of actors.

And a superdeterministic system could exist which differs from standard ways of approaching quantum mechanics. One obvious way in which it could exist is if our means of gathering data remain as limited as they are currently--i.e. we don't ever find a way around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and therefore can't ever model quanta deterministically. Superdeterminism doesn't mean that we'd always be able to measure the deterministic phenomena.

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