NEAR > ETH, for the same reason ZEC > BTC.
ZEC keeps taking share from Bitcoin because money should be private, and a transparent chain leaks everything once real value moves on it.
Ethereum has the same flaw, one layer up: every trade, position and balance is public. NEAR runs the same finance privately, on a confidential shard.
And I have not even mentioned private AI, where NEAR is already ahead. Same thesis, applied to intelligence instead of money.
Private is beating transparent for money. It will do the same for finance, and for AI.