long story short, the smartchain is a very useful tool which means it wasnt made during recess with fingerpainting. they've proven themselves through actions the worth knowledge and dedication regardless if they are "programmers? cryptographers?" or not.
Website? - nicely developed. check
Core Radium-qt client? - hardfork and complete rebrand including reward lowering with no issues. check
Supporting documentation? - wika page, 2 OP posts, full detail webpage, Slack support. check
Code writing? Smartchain coded from scratch. check