Is economics even real

Yes of course I know it's real but is the subject real??? It seriously feels like academia decided to turn orthodox economics into this weird STEM-ified version of itself (everything is dependent on numbers!! everything is quantified to the nth degree!! the graphs dont make any fucking sense!!) in order to say its the most 'rigorous' of the social sciences, when really, its just reliant upon the nebulous crutch of theory...... and theory is not real life.

i dont know... just seems like an economics education is more like a game where the rules are only useful to those who are playing along with you.

But im an undergrad so these r probably stupid, obvious observations