Fortunately it is not the "the LHC has created a blackhole which is eating the Earth" nightmare scenario!
Instead, a bump that appeared in early data, which suggested beyond-the-standard-model physics, has disappeared on taking more data. The early data stimulated a ridiculous number of theoretical papers, with some authors publishing 8 or 9 different papers with scenarios explaining the bump.
So, still no evidence for supersymmetry or anything terribly exotic beyond the standard model. The nightmare scenario for getting more money for a bigger collider: the LHC seeing what was predicted (the Higgs), and nothing else.
fistbump I'm of the idea that there will never be a perfect unifying theory, or at least not for long. Each improvement made by theorists will eventually cave as technology enables experimentalism to show inconsistencies. And maybe the timescales do get rather lengthy between theoretical advancements and experimentally-shown imperfections, but a finite amount of incognizance seems like a general theme of human existence. Besides, I can see a unifying theory raising just as many questions as answers.Also, I've got a healthy dose of schadenfreude for the plight of string theorists :).
I don't think world would be boring if a unified principle of the Universe was to be in action, much like I don't think soups are boring just because they're all based on water or that life is boring just because (on Earth, at least) it's based on carbon. Simple beginnings may spark astonishing variety.
Humans and our superiority complex. Have you looked at the ocean lately? What about material science? And beyond Milky Way? So much stuff still to uncover, weirder than fiction will ever be - and we think we would've gotten it all because of some grand theory of things.
