No, I think he is smart enough to avoid making statements around depreciating CAP theorem. He actually emphasizes repeatedly the trilemma of blockchain networks

No, I think he is smart enough to avoid making statements around depreciating CAP theorem. He actually emphasizes repeatedly the trilemma of blockchain networks with the factors scalability, security and decentralization and talking about that this would bending physics if it could be realized. I think it is very important for Ethereum to research other consensus mechanism as an alternative for Pow. Otherwise it will be the bottleneck if it wants to realize the vision around "worldwide computer". Vitalik has statements related to usefulness of use cases around private/permissioned blockchain networks. I think that will be only useful if combined with a layer 1 network which is public.