My view of the coin was simple.
Small  amount - 18 million
Great support and communication from the devs.
GUI wallet was developed well before ducknotes.
Had the potential of having the first cryptonote marketplace (tradeaeon.com)
and others.... the coin just made sense to me.
I own dashcoins, bytecoins,duckies, you name it. I haven't fallen in love with a coin like i have with aeon. Call me sentimental but for some reason this coin just made sense to me.

Hope it answers your question :-)