Dev seems so genuine. I truly feel bad for him. Im back all in this coin, hopefully it can recover.
When you see FUD like this, you know to buy.
Also, some people can't help it, they don't know anything about the open source software we trade in , we trade coins, yes, but we also trade open source software. So it's good to have some familiarity with that as well, some people just don't have a reason to so they never have, it's not their fault. But, it's important to understand how it works if FUD can affect your bankroll LOL
Ideas are mostly the same with individual twists in cryptography, otherwise it would not be secure, you have to start with the highly tested and well debugged codebase as it stands now, if everything was written from scratch it would mostly suck.
To go further each developer makes a small change or introduces a new concept, which will be heavily borrowed , at first, from the existing codebase which is not bad, it's how it should work. Every idea can't be 100% groundbreaking original never seen before, that world is not possible and it's not like that in any branch of science, and this is a branch of science. Our developer is a researcher. This coin and all other ambitious coins are experiments. Experiments take the existing industries open source codebase and add on to it with their own genius and ideas and the overall product, anonymous digital cash secured by cryptography, moves forwards. Just like Linux and all the GNU software that powers it.
Plus many overlooked the dev's own words that some ideas had influence from others but he still has his own ideas, which is exactly how open source works, and it should work that way. See the development of Android custom ROMs and how that moved Google's Android product forward quicker and cheaper with fewer bugs.