NEO is a strong platform because they had a big community and supported by lot of Chinese people, I also find a lot of new ICO's that is using NEO platform because they said that it is much secured compare to Ethereum platform.
Of course, I agree with your statement. NEO is a potential altcoin because it is a strong altcoin with an increasingly large community. However, for now ethereum is still the best, maybe one day NEO will follow it.
indeed for Ethereum to be the best coin at the moment, but I see that changes in the NEO and NEO are also improving. it would be great to bring a big change to the NEO and make it a very capable coin to rely on to generate substantial profits. it is able to become our motivation to continue to support the NEO to become so strong.