That is neither simple or actually correct and you like Bill are getting things confused.
Read carefully:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
There is much confusion about the meaning of entanglement, non-locality and hidden variables and how they relate to each other. As described above, entanglement is an experimentally verified and accepted property of nature, which has critical implications for the interpretations of quantum mechanics.
You are confusing non-locality into entanglement.
Entanglement at it's core has to do with light (wave particle duality) and atomic structure and the initial arguments go back to arguments about atomic spin,charge and structure it was realized it would have profound implications but that is an extension of entanglement not part of why it exists.
If you want a world without quantum mechanics then you need to work out how to explain light wave/particle duality and how to allow partial spins and charges within the atom.
The only way we have to do this at the moment is Quantum superposition ... read the formal interpretation (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition)
Hence the best and most consistent explaination of the universe in QM simply says
Applying the superposition principle to a quantum mechanical particle, the configurations of the particle are all positions, so the superpositions make a complex wave in space. The coefficients of the linear superposition are a wave which describes the particle as best as is possible, and whose amplitude interferes according to the Huygens principle.That's all QM says and its a pretty clear and concise statement.
Entanglement can occur because of the superposition and note at this point we haven't dealt with non-locality at all. We have simply said that particles are complex waves in space.
The argument then widened out because it those top scientists above realized atoms are built out of these particles so that allowed them to have partial charges and spins etc.
The problem was that there is no good reason why it should stop at the atom and now you start to get real spatial non-locality issue.
We somewhat harshly judge Einstein as being anti-QM and anti-entanglement but that is harsh because entanglement was not actually experimentally proven in his time it was largely a theoretical argument then.
