The situation looks to be analogous to the one before the Sun centered model of the solar system was developed.  The then "earth centered" model provided reasonable descriptions of some phenomena (e.g. day/night, seasons eclipses etc.) yet some observations (e.g. the motion of planets) could not be made sense of without major, and apparently arbitrary, modifications to the model.

In the case of  relativity, conventional representations are framed in terms of space, clocks and fields. All of these concepts are derived from the "older" classical /Newtonian framework, a framework that relativity shows to be (as Einstein put it) "an illusion".  Basically, if relativity is right, then the classical universe does not exist and cannot provide access to understanding the fundamental stucture of reality.

It is argued that the use of these "hangover" classical objects in relativity is the source of the specific problems that occur in the theory (e.g. one cannot readily represent the interface between matter and fields).

The article presents the viewpoint that:
  1) the mathematical relationships that occur in relativity are accurate.
  2) that these phenomena could reasonably be expected if time and existence occurred in a particular way.

The result is a model in which the existence of matter is seen as "occurring" at the speed of light, and action at a distance is modeled as the effect that the past "existence" of one object has on the "present" of another.

Computer Simulation of an Optical Interference Pattern

The main object of the inquiry in quantum theory is to reopen the possibility that there could be mechanisms behind observed quantum phenomena that are consistent with relativity. For such an idea to be feasable, features of current conventional concepts that are regarded as inconsistent with relativity must either be incorrect or misunderstood.

The approach looks a the fundamental assumptions in conventional interpretations. In particular, most conventional interpretations of quantum theory contain an assumption that may not be warranted. That assumption being: that the existence of diffraction and interference patterns must lead to the conclusion that non local phenomena must be present.