This example isn’t very compelling because we might as well say the cat died two days ago you just found out later.
But Einstein and S's being sensible pushed them towards thinking entanglement couldn't be a real thing. Although their best default position is to toss up their hands and say that there's gotta be a non-local hidden variable we just haven't found yet. But there are no candidates, as yet. (Unless you like Bohm, I suppose.)