I have a 5-Spot (HL version just switched to DW version) and a Motolite (Exogrod I got off Ebay). Quite different bikes, which is why I’ve kept both.
The ML is lighter (esp in Ti form) and has slightly steeper angles. Interestingly, the front end can wander a bit more on climbs, so I run both bikes with travel adjust forks (Thors on ML).
Suspension-wise, although both 4-bar, the ML feels taughter, therefore accelerating better than the Spot. The flip side of this is that the Spot feels much plusher over smaller stuff, esp with Push Rockers / Pushed RP3.
Upshot is both are great bikes, and this summer prob rode both equally depending on where I was riding and what mood I was in! If forced to choose one, I’d go for the new DW-Link Spot – best of both worlds with regard to suspension action!