I didn't read that as trying to diminish the brilliance of the original accomplish, but just trying to frame it less as "magic" or "genius" that is incomprehens

I didn't read that as trying to diminish the brilliance of the original accomplish, but just trying to frame it less as "magic" or "genius" that is incomprehensible and more as an impressive human feat by a human who had to do hard human work to get there. I believe the intent was to encourage us not to lessen the extent to which we believe that this is something that only a higher class of people can do. Ie: yes, we can't comprehend it on first glance, but they didn't come up with it instantly either. They spend time gradually working and modeling the problem in their head so that the end result is comprehensible to them.