Without debating which license is better or more free, in practice it would still be possible to lock a NC licensed resource behind a password without using a paywall and so the NC restriction doesn't resolve the issue of motive or intent of downstream users.
Yes, but if you lock a NC licensed resource behind a paywall, you're in violation of the license, while if you do that with a non-NC license, you're not. So while, yes, you can't regulate intent or behaviour with a license, you can use a license to indicate whether this sort of behaviour is acceptable to you or not. -- Stephen