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In ours we can send probes to confirm our observations, but the closest other star is so far away we'll never even get 1% closer in our lifetime.
I've already gotten good answers to why this shouldn't matter though.
You could make the same argument about our own solar system during the hundreds of years before space flight or probes existed. We knew the planets were there based on observation alone. There were many theories previously like the Heliocentric model that had our sun as the center of the universe but these were proven wrong without ever leaving the planet itself. The fact that probes now confirm that the other planets exists lends credence to the theory that other galaxies and solar systems exist too.
There's lots to learn about and lots of perspective shifts that (counterintuitively) can be found when you start to learn about particle physics.
I started to get into it about 2 years ago, and at first I was totally baffled. I kind of saw that as a fun thing though because it gave me cause to keep exploring backwards until I understood some fundamentals better.
Every time I started to think I grasped something, it just made more questions bubble up.
In the end, for as much as I think I understand about particle physics, I really don't, but I sure as hell know about all kinds of scientific measurement processes, theories, and underlying concepts of how the universe works (which is fundamentally different than what we assume and what we have been taught).