Reverse engineering silicon seems to have become the new "hacking". Everyone's doing it. Perhaps its time to come up with a term to describe the hardware equivalent of "script kiddie" ?
To be more constructive: I don't even understand what you mean? I'd say this is more on par with implementing one's own OS kernel, than what I associate with being a "script kiddie". Sure, it's easy. Just a bit of C and assembler, and you can copy an existing design. Anyone with half a brain can do it...