Yes, sorry, I wasn't clear enough about that. No, let me go further; what I wrote was downright misleading. This is why I shouldn't write Less Wrong comments on a tablet where I am too strongly incentivized to make them brief :-). I endorse your description of Eliezer's position.
There seems to be a widespread impression that the metaethics sequence was not very successful as an explanation of Eliezer Yudkowsky's views. It even says so on the wiki. And frankly, I'm puzzled by this... hence the "apparently" in this post's title. When I read the metaethics sequence, it seemed to make perfect sense to me. I can think of a couple things that may have made me different from the average OB/LW reader in this regard: