  We provide novel, metatheoretical arguments strengthening the position that
the naturalness problem of the light Higgs mass is a pseudo-problem: No physics
beyond the standard model of particle physics is needed to explain the small
value of the Higgs boson. By evaluating previous successes of the guiding
principle of technical naturalness, we restrict its applicability to
non-fundamental phenomena in the realm of provisional theories within limited
energy scales. In view of further breaches of autonomy of scales in apparently
fundamental phenomena outside particle physics, the hierarchy problem of the
Higgs mass is instead reinterpreted as an indication of the ontologically
fundamental status of the Higgs boson. Applying the concept of Selective
Realism justifies this seemingly contradictory attribution within the effective
theories of the standard model of particle physics. Moreover, we argue that the
ongoing naturalness debate about the Higgs mass is partly based on the
adherence to the methodology of effective theories (often claimed to be
universally applicable), for which there is no justification when dealing with
presumably fundamental phenomena such as the Higgs mechanism, even if it is
embedded into an effective theory.
