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Is gentoo Linux really worth it?
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Not really, on Gentoo you can set use_flags to disable entire parts of a binary. Is it useful? Is it worth it? I personally think not, which is why I stopped using Gentoo, but it's definitely more customisable than Arch.
However that has nothing to do with doing illegal stuff, not sure where he got that idea from.
I think it is very useful because of that, because that way you can omit dependencies that would be installed otherwise.
And maybe it reduces the risk of having bugs and security problems in the software that you use tied to certain features of it you don't have compiled in.
Or maybe it causes other bugs or security issues that are not widely known because most people use it with different flags.
It's no more or less secure, it's just more customisable.