If in fact you are identifying his contituency as Chardal or moderate frum and being aligned with Amsalem and to the exclusion of regular frum why would people tout that he has smicha from a Frum institution? He has thus clearly divorced his hashkafah from the haskofos of that institution.
I know personally dozens of graduates of Ner Yisroel who identify hashkafically in way similar to R’ Lipman, and who are part and parcel of the yeshivish community.
That is because the Ner Yisroel community is nothing like the Charaidi Bais Shemesh community. In fact, most Ner Yisroel Bochrim & grads would not be allowed to live in the Charaidi communities there, and would be tossed out by force if they somehow managed to get in.