The galaxy nexus released to Verizon had no google wallet and added one or two pieces of Verizon specific software including their backup assistant. I don't believe either piece of vendor bloatware could be removed just disabled.

edit: The other pieces of software is My Verizon Mobile.

Not anymore. The Verizon Galaxy Nexus has some bloatware, and Google Wallet was disabled. (You can re-enable it if you root/reflash, but then it registers as an 'unsupported device', so the officially supported device doesn't have all of the ICS features)

And even if that were the only difference, then there's not much to be excited about.

If you really want that, you're one of the 2%, and you're probably interested enough to go through the now-painless process of rooting/unlocking and flashing a custom ROM to get a 'vanilla android'.

And the other 98% of Android users don't care if they have bloatware/Sense/TouchWiz/Blur, because they don't even know the difference.

So even though the Nexus is not always a stock Android phone anymore, even if it were, that's not enough to get that excited about, either as a developer/modder/tinkerer or as a casual user.