Is the Higgs Field Fundamental to the Universe?

Everything t we're talking about in the universe, we don't know if they are fundamental. It could be that there are just different rules, different ways to get mass. Or could be like, mass is not an important concept. You can imagine there could be universes without ice cream, right? No big deal. I beg to differ, danie. What's the universe without ice cream? We might not be worth living in.