Man this is a tough subject, and a subjective subject! I have self-imposed a ban on trying to improve my pedal. I tend to like light, simple, fast pedals, yet here I am with a Tama Speedcobra as big as a tricycle. So, I bought this giant lump of steel because I needed a pedal with a footplate for a strange kick trigger I was trying out at the time. I had been quite happy with the entry level Yamaha pedal up until that day.
I physically went to a Guitar Center and played all their pedals, and on that day, at that time, the SpeedCobra felt faster than the DW9000. But for all I know that demo model of the DW9000 might have been sabotaged, because, Guitar Center has a problem with jerks coming in and ruining all settings on their stock.
But anyway, the Speedcobra lives up to its name and it is very fast, but I fancy something ultra light again, with a rounder cam, and direct drive, but anything that has a solid linkage costs twice as much as anything with a chain because it is trendy. So I try to keep my mind off it and I hire an off-duty Olympic weightlifter to carry my stupid pedal around for me, in its even more enormous plastic case.