You are completely wrong, this is a big POSITIVE for NEO. NEO has anti-money laundering and know your customer built in - they are not targetting scam ICOs, they want to attract the 1% of legitimate ones.
NEO will only have the best of the best while ETH will continue to be the shit ICO machine that it is.
1% of ICOs is maybe one ICO in 2 months. It cannot support 2 billion market cap.
That increases the market cap instead of decreases it. You can always buy the Useless Ethereum Token if you have a problem with ensuring investor safety in all things that involve NEO. This will only give investors confidence that none of their invested money is being squandered. There is no point in giving various ICOs $100 million dollars or more when they needed $10 million at most to develop the entire concept. All this ensures is that every dollar invested works optimally to the benefit of investors. I have enough confidence in the NEO developer community across the world to provide all kinds of valuable smart contract dAPPs. Most people do not realise it, but we are still in the earliest stages of smart contracts with only the very simplest of them being applied so far. Their real value is yet to show itself and that will happen. People who actually study the work of Nick Szabo will see how much more the smart economy can be developed. Ethereum took various huge hits such as when the DAO hack and subsequent Ethereum Classic hardfork took place, when the network could not handle all the ICOs on the network due to its initial PoW choices and when there was the flash crash. None of this added confidence and the various ICO scams who all get accepted without any due diligence also lower confidence in that platform. It is also about respectability to all involved in a certain platform. NEO thinks more longterm than most competitors and of course in the short term that might appear detrimental, but in the long run that is extremely beneficial.
Also take note of how you apply your math. It is stated that 90% are scams which implies 10% are legitimate. Of those 10% however only 1% actually raise the correct amount of funds to conduct their business (not excessive). The other 9% prefers to raise far more funds than they could justify and whilst they are not outright scams, the authorities do not like to see this behaviour. If I have to think of an example of this, I think of EOS. It raised an incredible amount and it really cannot justify it. Such excesses are not necessary. Even Berkshire Hathaway has a most modest website....it shows that even if your company is still valued more than all cryptocurrencies together that you do not need to excessively squander funds.
So the authorities intend to block the 90% of the scams which leaves 10%. You have to keep in mind that blockchain technology is developing very fast and more and more people seek to add value in this sector. Once regulation is in place, most scammers will not even try. In their place legitimate entrepreneurs will come. I thus do not see the number of ICOs decreasing. When given time, the number of legitimate ICOs might actually surpass the total number of ICOs we see at the present. There are about a 1000 cryptos out there currently. Most of them have very small teams and they do not need very large teams. In case every ICO team would have 20 members, then it still would amount to only 20,000 people which is not vast for a truly large industry. Of course the largest cryptos in practice can have teams numbering thousands of people, but for most that is not the case. In the future we might actually see millions of people employed in blockchain technology.