  In this letter, we point to three widely accepted challenges that the quantum
theory, quantum information, and quantum foundations communities are currently
facing: indeterminism, the semantics of conditional probabilities, and the
spooky action at a distance. We argue that these issues are fundamentally
rooted in conflations commonly made between causal dependencies, counterfactual
dependencies, and statistical dependencies. We argue that a simple, albeit
somewhat uncomfortable shift of viewpoint leads to a way out of the
impossibility to extend the theory beyond indeterminism, and towards the
possibility that sound extensions of quantum theory, possibly even
deterministic yet not super-deterministic, will emerge in the future. The
paradigm shift, which we present here, involves a non-trivial relaxation of the
commonly accepted mathematical definition of free choice, leading to
non-Nashian free choice, more care with the choice of probabilistic notations,
and more rigorous use of vocabulary related to causality, counterfactuals, and
correlations, which are three concepts of a fundamentally different nature.
