I don't think Justin is an idiot and by all accounts any programmer I've talked to online says he is a beast.
All open source projects alter existing code for the most part.
I don't think it's ALL hype. I do believe he is trying to build something good. Maybe he set too lofty of goals in too short of a time who knows.
Watch him and the PIVX guys chatting and see who comes out on top in the video.
Also there's plenty of plus sides to Verge. Fastest transaction times, most transactions per second, relatively low supply, and if it does block IP addresses properly (which there is no evidence it doesn't yet, just so and so in reddit comments saying "this is copied code! from not even a final build!" then I don't see why it wouldn't be a solid coin. XVG Whale fukk him, but I'm not basing what I think about the coin by how educated the community is on it. I'm going by what I see in it. Just because the Reddit page is full of shills does not mean the coin will fail.
Listen it could be trash, we got to wait and see I'm not sayin it all looks dandy, specially waiting til now to finalize. But most of the negative stuff lately has been based on fukkery that has nothing to do with what the coin does or promises to do, as well as some flat out lies and logical fallacies.