Talent or having a god given gift for the game dose exist. Probably the two best examples cue sports is reyes and O'sullivan. Two the most naturally gifted players who ever lived.
When someone makes a game look that easy. It's not just down to thousands and thousands of hours of practice. I has to be something more. It feels like in today's pool world
Everybody has the same playing style pretty much.today with all the aiming systems and other things being thought. So things don't look as natural as the previous generation of players. I started watching pool in 1998 and in 1999. With players like Strickland, bustamante, archer, reyes, varner, luat. all at the top of game at that time. Thay all made the game look very easy at times. Each had there own playing style, to my 14 year old self at the time. It really inspired me to play like them.
I don't feel that from this current crop of players. But the talent always rises to the top. Shaw, filller, oschen. And obviously guy called SVB. Just the way. thay hit the ball.
One other aspect of this. Is being able to read the table. And seeing the patterns and angles that may not look, as obvious to others. And the willing Ness to trust your stoke under extreme pressure.
There is a guy called phill Burford in my last tournament, he only played twice in a month before. He got the final of a Gb9 on that little practice. It's like someone said, it's down to muscle memory in the end from all the a hours and years you did before.