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It might just be that we didn't have enough compute till now. StockFish definitely has superior intuition
StockFish amplifies weak "intuition" (heuristic and simple neural estimators) through extensive Alpha-Beta search made possible by the low(ish) branching factor of chess. It doesn't work for Go already (KataGo uses larger neural networks to guide search more efficiently). I doubt either will work for math where branching factor is even bigger and the success criteria (is the result interesting and so on) are not strictly defined.