Removing the signatures is perhaps like removing the footprint, fingerprint, or DNA. That seems more of a complete overhaul. Some weird problems may occur down the road.

But in greater perspective, Litecoin was copying everything (the developer even stated it is a fork of bitcoin code) then just changing three parameters, 4x transaction block time, 4x coins, and hashing to another algorithm.

So it could be called Bitcoin Lite, does it matter? The final answer is no certainty which coin will be adopted by 60% of the world. Take out all those hateful naming, think it as Coin A, Coin B, Coin C. Then choose wisely.

One can call it DCash, or Magic Money but if someone purposely calling it a name to annoy others, then something diabolical is in their mind.