I agree with Ne - and intuition in general - being characterized by somehow holistic perception, but in case of object element, it's holistic within immediate environment. I tend to use a very broad definition of object, but it still doesn't make it into connections.
Ne doesn't so much make connections between objects as see them differently - morphs the concept as a whole within its context, consequently placing it in a different one, all to make it work with a Ti or Fi connectivity. In extroverted-introverted pairing, the former deals with a partial view, and if you say you only have one part, there may be little to be done with it - but it doesn't make connections within it any less of actual connections.
In a nutshell, what I'm saying can be summarized as "don't compare Ne to Ni", or Xe to Xi. If you're going to compare statics and dynamics, make it field for field and bodies for bodies.