The same kind of approach from Kotov can be used on net runner, or more traditional CCGs. You can see how that works in Magic, for instance, where the top players have major amounts of visibility. Someone like Luis Scott Vargas plays plenty of games out there, for people to see, and describing his thought process (which makes him a worse player in those games, but that's to be expected). You can still see the relentlessness that Kotov describes. He knows his options by heart, based on his knowledge of his opponent's deck and all cards available, he makes guesses, dedicates time to each decision, and them moves.

For high level play, there's also issue of deception that do not apply to chess, but will apply to Netrunner. Still, no good player will put deception first in his analysis. If anything, it's the equivalent of Magnus Carlsen's care for giving his opponent as many chances as possible of making a terrible mistake, while still playing very good lines.