I believe there are some pretty simple explanations. There has been no good alternative up to now. There are many brilliant scientists who enjoy the challenge. No one questions special relativity as the culprit. Einstein is god.
Physicists can earn a decent living.
The origin of the neutrino is inextricably linked to decay, yet many physicists have dropped that connection. The neutrino's origin requires it to have no mass, yet today's neutrinos have a wide variety of masses. Autodynamics Alternative Autodynamics is the first alternative to describing decay without the need for the neutrino. In fact, it presents a reason for why the neutrino was postulated in the first place. Not only that, Autodynamics can explain the experimental data without the neutrino.