This is a weird criticism to me. It's like complaining that a karate master is just drilling the same moves over and over instead of coming up with moves in sparring, or complaining that a football team is rewatching old games to see what plays work instead of just coming up with plays on the field. The memorization and preparedness IS the intelligence, not the waste of it.
The difference is that karate moves are not perfectly reproducible. Everyone performs them differently. Chess moves are perfectly reproducible. I can play the first 5 moves of many openings perfectly, exactly the same way as the world champion plays them.
