A Step Backwards?

If you want to discard space-time and go back to modeling gravitation in terms of a Newtonian force acting at a distance, then you are giving up some very elegant physics and quite a bit of empirical evidence.

Do you have any scientific evidence for returning to a Newtonian worldview? Gut feelings do not have a good track record in science, so you need empirical motivation, and some definitive predictions, before people will listen to an alternative worldview.