NEM is almost the same as ethereum, but it didn't had a success development.
You should think about all the possibilities out here.
NEM is pretty the same as eth, but they do not have the same function to create very smart contracts as you can do on eth.
I strongly agree. it has been proven that the design of ETH is very successful. The emerging ICO projects now use ETH as their smart contract. this proves that ETH is superior to NEM