I'm 100% it can be pulled off. While not 100% a ETH or BnB clone most of the code is already written. It's now just simply a matter of back engineering ETH to run on HIVE and we're off to the races.
Some minor details like how addresses work and whatnot will likely get tweaked eventually as well but for the start the focus will be on getting EVM to work with HIVE.. Once that is done there will be literally no reason for us to use ETH anymore as we'll have all the functionality of it here on HIVE, paid for with HIVE, supporting HIVE. :)