> Intelligent people can give more insight on a variety of topics without having expert level knowledge just because they are smart and can put the puzzle together differently.
Citation needed. This sounds like a Rationalist power fantasy which doesn't fit my experience of the world at all.
It's the adage of "when you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail."
Intelligent people have a full toolbox to analyze things with but domain experts tend to only have increasingly large hammers.