vitalik not investing in L2s in foreseeable future

There are other options to get leverage out of giving money, eg. it can be in exchange for commitments to be positive-sum toward ethereum and/or humanity in some specific ways, and the value of that commitment can easily be greater than 0.14% of a company. But the bigger-picture answer is that the gains of the cycle you describe are real but seem at present less than the gains of having a clear stance that sets an example and increases confidence that I'm not part of some plot to twist the ethereum protocol in directions that benefit random infra/L2 tokens that I hold.