If Hamilton could overtake Perez and take second in the championship I think I'd laugh hard enough to crack a rib or two.
Perez's head has completely gone. I get the points about him being a second tier driver and the car being designed fully around Verstappen but Red Bull have also dumped on him from a great height as well.
Let's look at the start of the season until Miami. Perez had two wins and a sprint race win, 2 poles, 1 fastest lap, a second and a 5th. Verstappen had 3 wins, 2 poles, 2 fastest laps, 2 seconds and a sprint 3rd. So far so even. Verstappen leads the championship 119 points to 105.
Remember of course that Perez was leading in Miami until RBR decided to give Verstappen all of the strategy calls.
Perez goes on to crash out in Q1 of the Monaco GP and hasn't got anywhere near Verstappen either in qualifying or on track ever since. Even when he does lead races, the pit stop calls always go to his teammate.
When you add up the fact he's an average driver, in a car not suited to him and that his team couldn't give a fig about his race weekend performances, he's completely wasting his time at Red Bull.