It seems like it's probably better for some problems and not others, like where some precomputation is both practical and helpful. So if you want to see if that's possible for a particular problem, try it and see.
I'd argue thats exactly what this talk is about: the presenter claims to have a new method that "wins", i.e. beats something else (A* and some variants on it). So the presenter at least thinks its important, as does the competition he mentions in the talk. He thinks you should try it, because he is saying its better. I'm claiming that without more care, its hard for me to take action on that claim because "better" is not a single dimensional thing, its a rich trade off between at least run time, precomputation time, precomputation memory, and arguably implementation difficulty. It'd be nice to not have to try everything yourself for your particular problem, don't you think?