Both goods points, I was thinking the same thing and wondering if Roger Ver had some form of autism or some other impediment that may be preventing him from seeing the potential risks he is facing by destroying people's wealth; risks up to and including his own demise.
Depends if you believe lightning network will function in a decentralized manner or will be a valid scaling solution in general or not. If you think it won't, Bitcoin needs around 8MB blocks at minium to be globally relevant as a payment system, and even then transaction fees are gonna be yuge. It would still be limited to things like realtors or car salesmen doing big transactions, or people transferring something like $10,000 of their bitcoin at a time to a centralized off-chain payment system like the Bitpay Visa.
Such a use case would still only place bitcoin in the status of settlement layer. I personally believe bitcoin does not function as a store of value, which is inherently required to be a settlement layer. If people were looking for the base of Exter's pyramid (store of value) you should be looking at gold and silver instead. Due to this, the price of bitcoin has to be floated by just raw transaction processing numbers aka utility, so huge scaling is imperative to it's price.
The only way currently known to get that type of scaling is a solution like LN, so it seems like to me that the life and death of Bitcoin may rest on the ability of LN to work or not.