I didn’t like the stiffness of the Mmmbop, which isn’t so relevant for you but that was the main downside… The Soul’s a fantastic frame and probably “better” as an allrounder, absolutely superb for all-dayers and pretty damn capable. Very good balance, it’s got a really playful try-harder feel to it.
I replaced it because I wanted something that’d be a more focussed descender, and that’s exactly what I got… Though Ragley was more versatile than I expected, and does climb well, it couldn’t match the Soul at anything except harder downhills, where it does have it fairly beat. The geometry comes into its own where the Soul starts to remember its XC-bike roots and stops being so confidence inspiring, but that doesn’t happen til things are getting a bit silly- downhill trails, daft off-piste riding etc.
So that’s basically all it comes down to for me- if you want to do silly descending, it’s Ragley, for absolutely everything else it’s Cotic. But they’re both good enough to overlap.