Physicists Can't Agree on What Quantum Mechanics Says about Reality

It is a pretty good article which points out that even though the mathematics of quantum mechanics is so successful in our modern world our attempts at understanding the physical reality that it maps to, remains up for debate. As the article itself states;

there is a significant divide between researchers who hold ‘realist’ views, which project equations onto the real world, and those with ‘epistemic’ ones, which say that quantum physics is concerned only with information.

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The closest that respondents got to consensus was that attempts to interpret the mathematics of quantum mechanics in a physical or an intuitive way are valuable — 86% agreed.

Note that QFT itself is a mathematical theory/framework and hence still subject to interpretation if we want to understand its mapping to physical reality.

In other words, the dictum of "shut up and calculate" is not enough. The article actually summarizes the various extant interpretations quite simply and nicely and hence worth reading.