I think we have gotten better at this and our exploration of reality has been both deeper and wider, meaning there are not that many low hanging fruits available. Now I’m not a physicist but I’m a mathematician, and in maths I don’t expect us to find big gaps in our theories like they did in the 19th century, because we have gotten much more rigorous due to those early pitfalls.
(also I’d argue that there is not much we can do, engineering wise, due to relativity/quantum mechanic—for example the GPS uses general relativity, but in a world where Newtonian mechanic is true, we could still have made the GPS and it would in fact have been easier).
I think we have gotten better at this and our exploration of reality has been both deeper and wider, meaning there are not that many low hanging fruits available. Now I’m not a physicist but I’m a mathematician, and in maths I don’t expect us to find big gaps in our theories like they did in the 19th century, because we have gotten much more rigorous due to those early pitfalls.
(also I’d argue that there is not much we can do, engineering wise, due to relativity/quantum mechanic—for example the GPS uses general relativity, but in a world where Newtonian mechanic is true, we could still have made the GPS and it would in fact have been easier).