The key for evaluating an idea, and especially for scientific ideas, is insisting that they make definitive predictions, testing those predictions, and then learning from those up-or-down verdicts. Definitive predictions which are:prior, feasible, quantitative, non-adjustable and unique to the idea being tested, can provide such verdicts. See the link below for the differences between Theories Of Principle and Model-Building Theories.
Bohm showed that there were alternatives to quantum mechanics modeling, but I am unaware of definitive predictions that came out of his implicate order ideas or QM alternative. Just reproducing observations is not enough for the best science, which also requires definitive predictions in order to show that it is the right path out of the many choices.