Vredestein Hi-Tracs are great and won Auto Express tyre test a couple of yrs in a row a few yrs ago. I had them fitted to my old car and they were good in wet or dry, fairly quiet and lasted ages.
They don’t make them in the size I need for the car I have now, so I have got Kumho Ecsta SPT KU31s. They are pretty similar to the Vredestein in terms of grip and noise.
Symmetric patterns tend to be quite noisy with higher rolling resistance than asymmetric.
And just because the design looks like it should grip well (cheap Goodyear copy or whatever) it will probably be a completely different rubber compund and internal construction that will give different results.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people say ‘just go to kwik fit and get the cheapest you can’. It doesn’t matter on the value of the car, as to how much you spend on tyres, nor does it matter the cars performance potential. If you need to stop urgently in the wet at 70mph you will be thankful for decent tyres – and I would guess that 99.9% of cars on the road can do 70mph.