Indeed yes! It sheds some light on the bot's internals.
If I understand right, the traceview is in fact the bot's generated A* path.
And that green cross which had me pondering in the GDC videos is in fact the bot's positioning orthogonally relatively to the path. It's not an obstacle detection trace...
OK
The usage they make of the navmesh is in fact quite different than what I'm trying to do.