But to be more clear: which one for you is better? 
I might say "yes" to that perhaps one of them is better.
But as you wrote ""better" is a complicated thing here as it is not one-dimensional."
I might say "yes" to that perhaps one of them is better.
But as you wrote ""better" is a complicated thing here as it is not one-dimensional."
The network effect is part of a coin. You can't just take the bare repository and assume it's being applied to a tabula raza. If it were like that, I would prefer a coin with proof of work to bootstrap the distribution and proof of stake to avoid wasting energy later, with a 50% / 4 years bootstrap phase like bitcoin.
My only concern with bitcoin apart from the wasteful POW which will get changed if ever a bitcoin is valued at a million dollar again is not with the protocol. It is the doubts about who created it. I know people say it doesn't matter but if whoever created it, did so with the intention to crush every competition, amassing 80% of all bitcoins, then yeah, it matters to me who's master's puppet I am here.