Revolutions happen when a new mental model - or frame of reference, or whatever you want to call it - can generate new kinds of math.
The old model is certainly wrong in the sense that it's not a good picture of how reality actually works.
If you really want to, you can still use epicycles for certain kinds of problem, just as you can use Newtonian physics for basic mechanics.
But this is engineering, not physics. These theories are useless for frontier research. They're absolutely wrong in the sense that their lack of completeness means they cannot be used to generate theory[n+1].