Most of the proofs that I've seen lately really aren't very startling, once explained. It just appears that a scientist or mathematician was thinking carefully about something, and derived something, then wrote a proof convince the rest of us.

Perhaps this sort of research is what happens when you focus your mind on one specific little topic, allocating all of your registers to that one topic. It's relatively rare, then, because we're rarely willing to focus on one tiny little topic in all of its excruciating detail.