The Nexus community has a right to be up in arms about this.
What does a "Google Nexus" phone represent now? I understand why Google wanted to launch via a carrier this time, but this Verizon Galaxy Nexus is changing what a Nexus phone is supposed to represent, or what we were led to to think it represents. It has a Verizon brand, and Verizon bloatware (it's semantics if you don't want to call it bloatware; it shouldn't be there).
And it begs the question: will updates still come via Google, or will it have to go through Verizon now?
More importantly, is Google changing what the Nexus is representing? This is sad if this is the direction.