that's true you could map it with 1/4th sliders. but the reason i advise against doing stuff like that often is because if you choose to map every faint sound in a way you'll end up overmapping a lot of stuff and you leave yourself little room for experimentation with rhythm in general.
1st 1 is fine, doing some type of big spacing thing here would be kinda awkward since it woul b rly forced and would stand out because of it. low spacing 2 emphasize stuff is fine; i dont see the need 2 be overly Consistent. buffed 2nd one slightly