BURST has many advantages. What initially stands out to most is the low power, eco friendly, green, HDD mining. If you have free space, even on a cell phone you can mine BURST.
It also has an asset exchange where you can reinvest your BURST and make dividends.
The community support is great and growing. If you look at simple stats like wallets being open and the size of the network/miners... you can see the community is really growing. Check out burstnation.com and burst-team.us to get an idea on the community.
BURST has a very strong and dedicated dev team. That have been with the project a while know (1.5 yrs approx) and have substantial personal investment in BURST... so they are motivated to make the coin go.
BURST also wasn't premined, there was no ICO it has grown naturally... it's a "people's coin" if you will.
Someone else mentioned supply. Yes there are 1.7 billion coins presently but it's hard capped at 2.1 billion. It's a fallacy to think because there's a large supply the coin can't grow. There are coins in the billions in regard to supply in the top 10 of cryptos right now. I also think the asset exchange helps this as a lot people are investing their BURST and not dumping it on the exchanges.
Those are just some of the highlights .... things such as smart contracts, a marketplace, cross chain transfers and more are also a part of BURST's future.
I trade it a little short term, but most definitely holding a chunk long term. My short time with BURST I'm up 6x on my money... and I get the feeling things are just getting started!