The Verizon GN phone will (so far as we've been told) be a genuine dev phone, meaning it will be trivial to unlock and reinstall with whatever you want. Thus, if you want to remove the two (?) Verizon crapware apps and you want to add Google Wallet, you absolutely can.

What sucks is that this isn't the default for everybody.

Caveat: I have no problem with the "My Verizon" app to help you find out how many minutes you've burned, etc. The "backup" thing is pretty easy to ignore, at least on my Droid X.