This reminds me of another coin that had a great developer, a killer feature and big plans but eventually suddenly died. Even the ATH price is the same as well as dev's MO and the dump. I really hope this is not the same scheme being pulled by someone.
And was that coin also developed from scratch? Your comparison is pointless to say the least

I hope so, we'll see. That coin wasn't but there were some significant improvements to it made by the dev. There's always an expense-outcome trade off so it is not impossible to spend some time/money to develop something from scratch if the profit is going to be good.
Why would you not call the name of the coin? Then is just FUDDING. Pure nonsense to compare VNL to another coin. VNL is NO clone of ANY crypto out there!