“...the need to accept counterintuitive weirdness about reality...”
Yeah, such as the notion that an electron can be in two places at the same time.
I think that has more to do with our limited ability to detect exactly 'where' an electron is at any given time.
In QM, if you measure where an electron is, it will not be there, it will be somewhere else. Therefore it is where you detected it and somewhere else because the act of detecting it caused it to instantly be elsewhere.
And now I will pull a rabbit out of my hat.
how can you be in two places at once when your really nowhere at all- Firesign Theater