The smart contract language and self amending governance capability are ground breaking enough to give it a major competitive advantage over Ethereum.

To me the personality and politics of the founders are irrelevant to the technical design. If they have good engineers on their team then their personal flaws will not have any influence on the platform. Giving them enough money to hire these engineers via a successful ICO is one way to achieve that.

And yes EOS has a competitive advantage over Ethereum as well but so far Tezos is in a position to have a security advantage in terms of the ease of writing secure smart contracts. I'm not sure about Web Assembly to be honest.