Sometimes I feel as if I am a stupid frog in the presence of angelic, all-knowing birds.
But I dare say that your raising the points you have been raising is much closer to Einstein's position in the great Plato/Aristotle debate - Einstein argued like a frog but had the instinct of a bird. His dream was to transmute the base wood of matter to the pure marble of geometry. But he just could seem to let go of local realism.