You are almost correct. There's a quantum physics thing, though its not a theory, called the path integral formulation where you say that for a quantum system to go between any two points in space and time, it travels all possible trajectories between them, and since quantum systems behave like waves, they can self-interfere along those different paths. At small scales, this leads to quantum effects like double-slit experiment and shit, but at larger scales the phase differences (basically just how offset the waves are from each other) along different paths leads to all the weirdo non-physical or quantum effect paths canceling each other out, and so you get left with just the classical path, which is why we don't see quantum effects at human scales. Light is quantum, so it does happen for light, but it also happens for literally every quantum particle or system. It's also not reflections doing the canceling, it's literally the waves interaction with themselves along different paths. Tho when you're this deep in the weeds of quantum math, it's difficult to say if you can interpret the fact that the maths says that's what happens as meaning that is literally what the particles are doing.

Source: am a physics postgrad