I mean he's basically admitting that math academia is outdated.

If we don't interview candidates based on results, what is it? Politics. It already was. I had a JEMS paper in grad school and got zero postdoc offers. Many other cases.

The real shift is that math will become a hobbyists game. Make money other ways and then spend your money on humans and tokens to solve your problems.

Academia is almost entirely a patronage network. It was never about results.