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From what I understand of the neuropsychology and expertise research this saying is terribly misleading. The structural changes to relevant areas of memory and the observations of which aspects of pattern recognition are improved the perception of higher level abstractions rather than low level features is rather inherent to the achievement of high levels of expertise. Chess experts for example have a vastly superior ability to memorize chess board layouts that are of the kind that occur in actual games. On the other hand their ability to memorize randomized chess boards is barely more than that of amateurs. I would be shocked if this was different in Go players. This indicates that what the experts are 'seeing' can not be meaningfully described as advancing according to the saying.
I prefer this sentiment. "Deep" nonsense saying things are all the same when they aren't doesn't belong in a rationality tract.
The saying can be seen as mystifying the abilities of stronger players. But I think there are also more charitable readings. I think the second and third stage in the saying might refer to the same as the “rigorous” stage and the “post-rigorous” stage in this article. Instead of saying that in the third stage on sees "just stones again" (I might have replicated that part badly), it might be more correct that one can see the stones again, because the formalisms aren't in your way anymore.
Well, I assume it was included mostly for poetic reasons. Which is not an excuse, of course.