I have nothing but respect for the man, he's certainly a smarter and better engineer than I am. With that said, I don't find him interesting at all. Reading the white paper for Ethereum and comparing it with Satoshis makes it incredibly clear that Vitalik cares about financial instrumentation rather than decentralized trustless economic systems. The switch to proof of stake made this pretty clear, of course.

Ethereum is just not usable for anything right now. I'm pretty extreme on this but I think it will be forgotten in a few years. It's just not fun to develop.