To me, Melawati is a more chilled and relaxed place to stay.
Has all the conveniences without too many negativities...
Usually convenience comes with downsides...progress comes with a price, but in Melawati, just enough progress, enough so that life is convenient but less issues. It has its own neighbourhood mall as well.

Not much leeway for new buildings/facilities to be built (for example Wangsa Maju, non-stop have some construction going on), so its nice.

If you want the hustle and bustle of city life, KL is not that far. very accessible.

you mentioned a few Chinese restaurants in that area, so i assume your are Chinese? sorry if im wrong.
Taman Melawati is pre-dominantly Malay community, with some small Chinese and Indian community.
No SJK C there, only SJK T.
So if you are OK with this, it is a nice place to stay.

If you go to Melawati Mall you can see from the shops there, it is to cater to Malay mid to high income bracket.

Subang jaya? oic.
Subang jaya have like 40% Chinese, malay 35%.

for comparison, Kuchai Lama is around 70% Chinese.

Taman Melawati? around 30% Chinese.


These traditional shops around Melawati are nice. some are still there.

u know Giant? they used to occupy the Ace Hardware and TNB shoplots. very busy area then.
Then they moved to Taman Permata. That location where Giant is now in Taman Permata....i cant recall what it used to be, but some of it was actually a petrol station, and we have nights markets there. now become Giant Mall already.

Also, not a Chinese shop, but there used to be a place called Thurkah's Banana Leaf in Melawati. very nice breakfast and lunch, patrons from all sort of races.
i think sometime after Covid, it became SHAM Banana Leaf, i never tried after that. From google review not as good as Thurkah's but still good reviews.
Change of ownership or management maybe.

Before Melawati Mall, there used to be a Driving Range there where i will go and hit some balls.

I dont see any more areas in Taman Melawati where they can do a big development, so i guess nowadays are ok.
There are a lot of changes in Taman Melawati over the years, but it is still a homely and nice place to stay.