Trouble for physical collapse models?

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https://www.quantamagazine.org/physics-experiments-spell-doom-for-quantum-collapse-theory-20221020/
Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness
Physical-collapse theories have long offered a natural solution to the central mystery of the quantum world. But a series of increasingly precise experiments are making them untenable.
Philip Ball

On Twitter, he writes "Personally I think recent experiments have indeed pretty much spelt doom for physical collapse models. They were always a long shot, and I applaud that they are testable - but the writing is on the wall."
 
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It's like supersymmetry, you can always adjust some parameters to bigger/smaller values, or construct a more complicated model, so that the general idea is not ruled out by the last experiments.
 
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PeroK said:
Does this mean that when you measure a collapse model, the model itself collapses?
I read the same article and came looking!
 
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