Astrophysicists have gone all through this. Absent direct observation or at least a good explanation of what it actually is, I don't think anyone really likes dark matter. The main objection is that it feels a little too flexible: you can explain a lot of things by adding mass in different places. But it's not infinitely flexible: you don't need arbitrary and utterly weird distributions of dark matter. And so it's generally emerged as the best explanation of observations so far, and not for lack of trying with tweaks to theories of gravity themselves.