Sorry for the long story. ;-)

The main problem is not even the observations, but the divergence away from the actual solutions without observational feedback.
Like sailing with a ship without navigation.

Example 1: Quantum mechanics diverges in all kinds of hypothetical interpretations, while not reconsidering some of the fundamentals of the theory. You can get the same solutions to the experiments without any particles at all. So instead of weird behaving light "particles" we simply have electromagnetic waves. There is no reason to use particles in most (or even all) of the experiments.

Example 2: On the sun we see a lot of plasma ropes that behave like electrical currents. But the astronomers do not like electrical currents, so they falsely model them as magnetic field lines instead. This creates theories where magnetic field lines bump into each other with all kinds of side effects ("magnetic reconnection"). While this is impossible in all known physics. They also invented "frozen primordial magnetic fields" that do not exist either, to have a hypothetical origin for the existence of magnetic fields. With electrical currents this problem would not even exist, and science could start to investigate how they are created.

The observations are difficult to make. Example 1 is with small particles and Example 2 is in space.
But instead of reconsidering the basic theory or comparing alternatives, which would the best scientific way, we get all kinds of hypothetical extensions to the original theory. Probably because that is how the Human mind works: drifting off in fantasies.

So I promote the usage of a Null-hypothesis:
Is there a different possible theory to explain similar observations?
(Preferably a more basic theory, not "more beautiful")
Is there a possible experiment that can distinguish between both?
Have such experiments been tested thoroughly?
With the null-hypothesis we can strengthen or reconsider the basis for a theory (or its limitations).

In example 1 it would compare Einstein's Photo-electric effect with Planck's Loader theory: Discussed here

In example 2 It would compare "magnetic reconnection" with electrical currents in plasma.
The observations are easy to make in laboratories now. We see that reconnection does not exist, and that similar phenomena can be formed with electrical currents in plasma.
Yet, astronomers avoid this conclusions by pretending that it does exist on the sun.