Both coins are far from ideal. Zcash with with its early distribution system is a joke.
With their slow start and mining tax devs wanted to do something to favor investors and prevent advantage of early adopters at the same time.
But they failed to realize it will make Zcash less interesting for everyone else. And ZCL is just a copy and like all clone coins it might go down very quickly.
ZCL is actually older than zcash so zcash copyed it, also the protocol from my understanding is better than zcash which rely on a centralization, i think zcoin will be a better coin when they will get rid of the botnet with the new algorith