If we look at the past and his ideas about why he invented ETH, then we can clearly see that he wanted to change something dramatically in terms of making something better than Bitcoin. Almost a decade later he failed to do so and from time to time he comes up with statements like this to prove to someone that he is still trying to do something miraculous and revolutionary.

A few years ago, he publicly put forward the idea of stepping down as the main man in his project, but he was clearly not brave enough to follow in Satoshi's footsteps.