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Einstein had a great quote: "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." Well, turns out, a lot of the world is not comprehensible. And that's what made Einstein irrelevant for the latter part of his life.

Our overestimation of the comprehensibility of the world may very well be some version of the Drunkard's search principle. We are much more likely to know about what's comprehensible than what's not.

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As far as I know, a lot of the criticism Einstein leveled against the foundations of quantum mechanics later in his career are more recently being revisited... instead of being irrelevant, some of his later work may simply have been too far ahead of its time.

that's a misstatement of einstein's work. he didn't believe the world is incomprehensible, rather that it's not inherently random.

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