How central is it in the discrete geometry? Could anyone with the knowledge in the field reply?
There is no universally agreed-upon "central" conjecture (like "P vs. NP" in CS), but here are some pillars:
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_ending_problem
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger_conjecture_(combinato...
The thing is is that it seems a lot of the effort through the years (which is unquantifiable in scale as to how much time was spent and how many people focused their entire worklives on it if any) has gone for trying to look for the proof, and the search for the disproof seems minimal.