Is it just me...
Or do I sense some form of "relief" that the Universe can be explained with some kind of "conventional" matter? It's understandable and we don't want to end up with the 21st Century version of Ptolemaic epicycles. But I am also reminded of the past reactions first to Einstein's theories, then quantum mechanics, and the Big Bang.
I remember reading a 1960s article from Scientific American where the author lamented losing the Steady State theory of the Universe's formation, where matter was created continuously forever, to the Big Bang, where the Universe had an actual starting point.