I don't think that it is right to compare Cardano to Neo because if you will see Cardano is much progressive and more develop chain as of the moment than NEO.
That's obvious because the age of the two is also very different, and in general NEO was also more popular in the past before the Cardano trend emerged in the crypto space as it is today, so logically it is not very appropriate to compare the two.
It seems to be not correct. Both NEO and Cardano have been founded approximately at the same time that is in 2014 (NEO) and in 2015 (ADA).
"NEO was founded as AntShares by Da Hongfei and Erik Zhan in China in 2014 and was rebranded as NEO in June 2017" while " Cardano and its primary cryptocurrency, ada, in 2015". NEO was always being considered as pure "Chinese" product while Cardano has positioned itself as globally oriented project.