I agree with you, Neo is a sleeping giant and defnitely not a dead platform. Neo is known as China's Etherium, and they use a blockchain algo that improves Etherium's model. It has closed loopholes that made Etherium vulnerable to hackers. But I think Etherium with the ERC20 token being used now with so many developing projects, at the moment the application base might be bigger than that of Neo. That might be why Etherium scored first place on the list.