The way of distribution can't decide the fate of any altcoin. The most important part is its feature and the dev team.NXT has more potential, which has a great dev team!
Actually distribution is directly correlated across alt coins and all economic systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x23C1sQg6wQ
They should have looked at counter examples. I already mentioned many. Node, Crypti, NFD, mintcoin, aroracoin. All of them had a better distribution but yet no marketcap.