Somebody has found their hill to die on today. He did not say that at all but you have convinced yourself that he did by taking the most simplistic reading of his comment and fitting it to your narrative.
Everton quite clearly have looked at the way Brighton set up and realized there is space to exploit when the fullbacks push on, especially with the lack of pace and agility of Webster and Dunk. Everton have gone in with a gameplan and executed it to perfection. Nobody is saying that makes Everton a better team but it could and should give our team and our manager food for thought, we have played 210 minutes against Brighton recently and shown no ability to adapt to the challenge they present.