I hope this investment is a fair launch. With Lisk a lot of people lost out on profit because only very few had the option to sell. I believe Waves is going to be great and have a truly successful launch unlike that terrible launch Lisk had.
That is clearly the best thing that could have happen to lisk, which got rid of all those greedy investor and get rich quick kids.
Nonetheless, here I don't see at all the same community, thus the launch would certainly be much different (in any way, it is always good to get rid of those who cannot handle the ride).
I think it doesn't really matter if WAVES's launch will be better than Lisk or not. The scenario is always the same; high opening price and dump to ICO price or close to it. For Lisk the lowest low on Poloniex was ca. 2x ICO price (~0.00035 on May 25, 00:30).