I think the problem is more fundamental. Newtonian mechanics is a science based on observation. Mathematics is just used to build a model that describes _how_ the reality behaves, not why.

Now Einstein is very special, because he proved that our human perception of space and time is wrong. When we think about the allegory of the cave, we got a glimpse of the reality we couldnt see before.

Nowadays every phyiscist wants to be the next einstein that uses mathematics to show us something about reality. The problem is that einstein had good reasons for his ideas. The constant speed of light didn't really work with maxwells equations. The model at that time didn't correctly describe the observations and the maths he used to solve that is rather elegant and simple.