Reacción a "Reactions to Peter Higgs' death"

I don't really know how to assess Higgs' significance from a philosophical point of view, beyond what all the media have already said, but I don't think his work can be described only by the boson, but also by his contribution to explaining what happens in the spontaneous breaking of symmetries, which introduces an element of contingency in the basic laws of nature, which are symmetrical.
Apart from that, of course, there is his contribution to the unification of forces and also to explaining how the features of our universe are generated in the very first moments of the Big Bang. The discovery of the particle at CERN was partly a relief for physicists and partly a disappointment, because otherwise they would have had to look for new explanations.