The Ducati wins in the beauty (cosmetics) department, IMO , but having owned a blade when it was still a 929cc I suspect it could be more reliable than a 1299.
I have no experience yet with Ducati, but have read about older ones giving electrical problems, my 1299 only has 1100 km on it so can't compare, but I see some issues here on the forum tech side, I have seen blades with 170000km and still going, I have met owners with older 916 (I think) Ducati's and newer 1098's and when they have 5000 trouble free Km's the are extatic
Just saying