Why the Paid Tier Feels Better
Partly because everything about it is built to. Paid tools load faster, look cleaner, arrive with a person answering messages and frame their calls with more conviction. Partly because of what you brought to it: money already spent makes a signal feel weightier, and the wins that follow get attributed to the purchase while the losses get attributed to the round.
None of that is unique to this market. It is the ordinary experience of paying for something, and it works exactly the same when the thing purchased has no mechanism behind it.
The Comparison We Would Like to Publish
A side-by-side of free and paid calls over the same six hundred rounds, logged in advance, with a coin column running alongside. We have run shorter versions and the three columns sit on top of each other. If a paid product wants to separate itself from the free tier, that table is the cheapest way to do it and no vendor has yet produced one.
The method for running it yourself is on the testing page, and the overview of every category is on the home page.