David
Wow! Sorry I didn't read your essay earlier. Excellent writing style and I agreed with just about all! And just in time. Nice big score coming!
I really hope you'll rush over to mine which I'm sure you'll like. It leads up to a shockingly simple(ish!) physical mechanism producing a Classical QM derivation. (most physicist will run screaming from the very concept!) It does exactly what you suggested, re-formulates (though Diracs equation holds!) to explain the reality of objective 'wave function collapse', which results from 'requantization' on interactions. There's also a video;Classic QM on Vimeo.
Do throw all you can at it, though it only finishes the well tested model in last years essay which was scored top.
As an aside; (look afterwards) the same fundamentals have already predicted coherent compatible SR and pre 'BigBang'(NOT!) conditions in a fractal 'recycling' cosmology.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4540.5603.
I hope you get to read/comment/score mine before the time limit.
Many thanks for the great read.
Very best
Peter