Probably not.
I'm of the same mind as Markus here --and I don't mean in genius, and probably he didn't mean that either. In my case it's more of an "on the shoulders of giants" kind of idea. Though to me, that doesn't mean I don't value contributions from people analyzing complicated scenarios. Quite the contrary. Some explanations I've found here are nothing short of a masterpiece. But I for one need the shortcuts that the big picture gives you (these words "big picture" have appeared on another thread recently.) If only some people saw what many of us can see thanks to these great minds. It's as if someone had given you night-vision goggles to see in the dark. Why won't Michel put on the goggles and see the vistas? That's what I ask myself.
The big picture gives you power, even if you're not a powerful thinker. Mathematical tools take you farther and farther afield, and uphill. It's as if someone took you with a helicopter to the top of the mountain and you said, "oh, I see." Then you can follow the terrain downstream. It's such a pleasure!
I think that this self-indulgence is both the greatest advantage and the first deadly sin of the theorist. You need to see the landscape, and you must cover a lot of ground.