I think semi-obvious would be a better criticism than unprovable. You can't make connections unless you have things to connect to. You can't recognize (your o

I think semi-obvious would be a better criticism than unprovable. You can't make connections unless you have things to connect to. You can't recognize (your own discovered/inspired) novelty unless you have memorized normality. If you are creative in the absence of knowledge of what already exists then that's considered as reinventing the wheel, and not very useful, even it it's Ramanujan reinventing much of established mathematics.