Somebody please just correctly inform me about this shit. So is it accepted that there are probably only 17 types of things that actually exist and everything else is a massively complicated interaction between these things?

Also, How accepted is string theory compared to this?

Why are most of these things just higher energy versions of the other ones? Is there any reason you call them separate things entirely and not just higher energy forms of the up/down quarks for example? Why even cal up and down quarks simple? And not just one quark with 2 possible charges and three possible masses?

Are you sure there isn't a higher energy quark? Like a super-heavy quark which is a fourth quark weight that is just so high that you haven't observed it? Or is that impossible based on a rule?

Do quarks even exist if they can't be observed singular? Does this mean that quarks are just a model to explain what is actually a complex interaction? Are there really two/three separate quarks glued together to make particles, or is that just the model you've made for something you don't understand? is an electron actually an entire universe or what is it? Why the fuck are they so particular and not simple?