The standard model is basically a list of correctly working theories, taped together like the monster of Frankenstein.
Nobody likes it. It's ugly as hell. Physicists, dreaming of some perfect symmetry driving the universe forwards all recoil in horror. Everybody thinks ot must be possible to make something better.
Problem is, the monster works. After tuning a short list of parameters, it survives everything we can throw at it. We have trouble calculating the consequences, but that's not a failing of the model
This a a pretty reaching take. The standard model has lots of short comings and definitely doesn't survive everything we throw at it, namely gravity and likewise general relativity.
If vacuum is meta-stable it is possible for entirely different set of fields to exist instead, but the gravity would be the same, I guess. This makes it outside of standard model.
Nobody likes it. It's ugly as hell. Physicists, dreaming of some perfect symmetry driving the universe forwards all recoil in horror. Everybody thinks ot must be possible to make something better.
Problem is, the monster works. After tuning a short list of parameters, it survives everything we can throw at it. We have trouble calculating the consequences, but that's not a failing of the model