What's the intuition that an extremely important proof will come from someone who gets all the TeX tweaked to camera-ready perfection, goes around and gives the talks, and all the conventional things... rather than a genius out of nowhere who walks into a stranger's office, wordlessly drops on their desk a stack of handwritten pages wrapped in twine, and walks out, never to be seen again?
I was thinking of this because I once knew an autistic person, from some humble and isolated upbringing, who was getting some informal math instruction, and they told me they thought they knew a proof for P=NP. I considered it extremely unlikely, but not utterly impossible. (They reportedly tested "off the scale" high in some particular cognitive regard, and I'd noticed a couple minor superpowers.) If that person, to use them as an example, ever actually worked out the proof, and wanted to "turn it in" with their own judgment and access, I wonder where they'd go. And whether it would be somewhere that would take them seriously enough to look at it, and whether they could tell that a proof in unconventional terms had merit. If they get turned away from the first place, would they be discouraged and give up, or would they keep trying, there or elsewhere. If they persisted, would they appear to be a crank because of their persistence and frustration.