the density between the cup and salad has a notable gap, a good example would be how the kiai is mapped in both diff. Your cup has a lot of 1/2 starting from here 01:02:025 - until here 01:26:975 - while the salad plays more with 1/1 patterns and I feel like it should be the other way around. A good fix would be tone down the usage of 1/2 and stick with 1/1 sliders or notes so it doesn't feel too overdone for a cup.
for numbers:
this cup has 419 notes
salad has only 343.