The trick is that you need good data to feed it that makes the patterns clear. You might have not gotten a lot of that on the topic you had no intuition of. On some topics, there hasn't been much of an attempt to do that since people expect it to be hard with everyone forced to do the methods that are non-intuitive. Lots of traditions are like that. Then, there's the possibility something can't be intuitively handled at all. I don't know if those exist but they might. That many activities of people doing math seem to get an intuitive boost during their day-to-day work makes me lean towards intuitive possibilities for about everything that can be approximated (esp with heuristics).
> the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
There is such a thing as developing your intuition.
I think your meanings are not qualitatively different.