Sounds like Phil is just trying to cover his ass and pretending that he's not naturally boring. If Phil is trying to be boring, he's failing pretty spectacularly at it. When people say Phil is boring, what they usually mean is Phil is repetitive. There are some streams/games where he can be particularly boring, but it feels like we're getting animated Phil rants pretty frequently. I might even go so far as to argue that Phil produces more content specifically for detractors than he does his actual fans. True, he barely touches games these days and always finds way to stall or checks his phone or whatever, but all those things give us stuff to joke about, with the phone thing especially basically being a Phil meme.
Phil is actually at his most boring when he's just focused on an easy to play game where he can just spam one or two buttons and grind his way through. He's content enough because he's "winning" so there won't be any angry Phil rants. There's not much of anything because if he isn't ranting or complaining, he's just giving bland commentary.
But yeah, this seems more like a "jokes on you, I was being retarded on purpose," type of deflection from Phil, probably because one of his mods called him boring and he was too much of a pussy to call them out and decided to just play along with it.