Re: I agree in principle, but...
I think the overwhelming majority of particle physicists expected to find the Higgs, and the actual particle detected closely matches the consensus values for its mass (energy). Which was an impressive demonstration that the standard model works well in all regimes that we have access to, but an 'unexpected' result would have been (as always) much more interesting.
Supersymmetry, is somewhat more controversial as a theory, and less prescriptive of possible mass ranges. So, not finding anything will not rule the theory out. Finding some actual new particles, however, would be quite exciting.
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