As far as I have seen, issuing a NEP5 token requires developers and a rather hefty downpayment of 500 GAS. That's doesn't seem like a very good alternative. Stellar would probably be a better alternative than NEO. However, neither NEO or Stellar would offer Byteball's built-in KYC features, accredited investor attestations allowing legally and fully compliant issuing of unregistered securities not to mention the built-in feature allowing investors to buy the token directly using Visa/Mastercard. All of these features is usually something the token issuer have to sort out on his own, and most is both incredibly time consuming and rather expensive too. With Byteball - that comes out of the box. For free!