My issue is that I feel he isn't really exploring this question - he's altered things to make it clear that you can be all the positive things that make up Thor if you pick up the hammer. All of Thor's thousands of years worth of experience is apparently worthless, and the hammer can duplicate all of Thor's powers except better. It's a very biased exploration of the question, imo, and doesn't do Thor justice.
It does kind of remind me of the Superman/Shazam story where Sivana siphons off Captain Marvel's powers, leaving him with the dregs: