OTOH, XMR devs are doing great things to salvage, improve, and perfect their inherited Cryptonote codebase.
Inherited? You mean the cryptonote team died and passed the code on in their will to the XMR team
The XMR team simply reused, WITH PROPER ATTRIBUTION, the CN code base to launch their own fork. Then they vastly improved upon it.
Do you even WITH PROPER ATTRIBUTION bro?
Changing the subject to another coin to distract people from VNL's stolen code isn't going to work. Your scam = busted.