You are nearly correct, particularly toward the end of your article, Chris.
Gödel (Einstein's best buddy) provided the information already with his Completeness and his Incompleteness Theorems.
First the simple approach: Science itself is an incompleteness. It works on its own axioms, and as such it is limited.
So, we are indeed after the scientists' brains that declare Science Almighty, and do so incorrectly. Science is limited, structurally limited, and scientists can behave as if Science is a religion (not per its data, but per the scientists' view). I can elaborate if so desired.
Then Einstein and Gödel. On Einstein's 70th birthday, Gödel 'gave' Einstein as present an alternative to Spacetime, and Einstein was very much surprised that it was (also) correct.
So, we have two models that explain the anomalies seen among matter's behavior.
Interestingly, both men did not explain the WHY; they only showed the HOW of the anomalies, and then they correctly formulated the framework to do all calculations. Yet they did not explain why.
If one pays attention, then it should be obvious already that something was wrong with Spacetime.
Like Newton, Einstein started with the behavior of matter, but the answer he formulated is not found with and among the behavior of matter. Rather, he picked Spacetime to do the explanation.
Same for Gödel and his Metric, he picked Space as the underlying principle, and therefore he, too, moved away from the behavior of matter and got to something different to explain the specific behavior of matter.
So both men said something weird like "the vase broke and the cat did it". Meanwhile, the cat was outside all day long.
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Naturally, I would not say this if I did not have the WHY available.
Einstein and Gödel looked at the behavior of matter, but they forgot to include the most important behavior of matter that got started up with the Big Bang.
They failed to include what is the most important aspect of matter's behavior. It's actually the fastest motion we are involved in and they left it out.
To read the same (and a little bit more):
"Einstein, Gödel, and Me."
https://medium.com/@fred-rick/einstein-g%C3%B6del-and-me-5bee14dd0edd
