Is this something new coming from Novogratz, or was he saying similar things before? If so, he might have been paid by ETH people or some other altcoiners in order to boost their coins - things look pretty desperate for them, because they don't grow as fast as Bitcoin does, and they can easily be left behind in this rally, which will hurt their long-term prospects.
Recently Vitalik made "charity-like" investments in various Eth based projects, and this might be his way to return the favor by sucking them off.
Mike is also financially motivated to shill the crap out of Ethereum and the sheer number of scam tokens running on top of it because he holds the famous bag, and boy is it heavy. Mike has seen his portfolio note a loss of almost $100 million as result of that.
It's not viable to expect Ethereum to play a role of importance in what they call web 3.0. Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc, are all better positioned to change the way we use the internet, and the mass doesn't give a single shit about what they use as long as it works.
Lightning will contribute to more importance to the internet through micro transactions than Ethereum. It allows people to only pay for what data they consume, and this is quite a powerful utility. Also think about skipping annoying ads by paying a fraction of a cent, get rid of paywalls, etc. This is useful to people, and not some flashy Dapps that look interesting on paper, but in reality no one uses them.