NXT will be the gateway to their assets.
Plus you forget about the other features like :alias, market ,built in dice and other perks.
NXT doesnt necessarly have to be a standalone currency, but it can be a gateway to more interesting projects, that will be built upon it, and thats why its interesting.
So NXT will really have intrinsic value, that many gold shills found lacking of Bitcoin.
I understand this pitch and the angle that NxT is attempting to promote as I have already discussed. There are other projects attempting to do the same but I won't waste your time as I am not here to pick sides but discuss some salient facts and concerns.
NxT has no inflation and thus a drop in volume and marketcap in relation to BTC can only mean one thing...adoption is being outpaced by early investors selling coins for assets and/or other coins. This wouldn't be so bad if some of these NxT assets represented interesting projects but most of these assets (including many BTC cryptoequities) represents scams and fraud.
Some Cryptocoin 1.0 projects will transform into Cryptocoin 2.0 projects, and some Cryptocoin 2.0 projects will transform into Cryptocoin 3.0 projects. I see Nxt as being in a good position to be one of those that merges into a 3.0 project, as they are already well on their way with all of the features it has. There have been very few development teams that have walked the walk around here, and Nxt is one of those few.
People should be wary when listening to someone pitch distinctions in cryptocurrencies with marketing nonsense like Cryptocoin 2.0 and Cryptocoin 3.0. This is much akin to people using ambiguous marketing terms like "cloud computing"