What if your "idea" is simply wrong, based on your own misunderstanding?
The fact remains the traditions don't have an explanation for why quanta and why uncertainty? Why is mystery better?
The particle and wave duality of photons is another example of reference in reference, to show this is common to the universe. The wave-particle duality does not imply an equivalency of particles and waves, but an interconnection of two things, because waves can occupy the same space but particles cannot.
As a thought experiment, say we had a wave tank, with two wave generators, one at each end. These generate waves that are 180 degree out of phase. In the center of the tank the waves will cancel as the troughs of the waves from the left superimpose on the crests of waves from the right, and vice versa.
Although energy and work is constantly added, there is silence in the center of the tank due to the waves canceling. Energy is constantly being added but appears hidden. We can place a partition in the silence in the center of the tank, to make the energy reappear. The partition is analogous to the particle nature. This allows the hidden energy to reappear.
Theoretically, a purely wave universe, but with all waves canceling, would have hidden energy and would appear like a void, if there were no particles in the universe. The appearance of particles partitions the stillness, so energy appears out of the stillness; particle/waves duality appear as energy.
In terms of energy/photons, energy moves at the speed of light, which is the same in all references. Yet wavelength and frequency can change with reference. These are two distinct things. I would guess since the particle is the partition, and the partition allows energy to appear, the particle aspect is connected to inertial, while the wave aspect is at C. Changes in the height and width of the partition, due to GR and SR, allowing the energy to appear or disappear, to and from C, into and out of inertial space-time.
The red and blue shift take away or add energy content, respectively, due to the changing of particle partition via GR and SR.