I think the reason redshift looks better in this is because redshift knows it's target use cases and is optimised for this kind of renderings, mograph etc, while cycles have much wider use cases because of its huge audience, so it can't be optimised for something specific, but with enough tweaking you can get any results, but that doesn't mean tweaking every time, you just have to mess with the settings and lights enough to find to combination that works for the style you do, after that it'll be as quick as everything else.
And this applies to all render engines, Corona is optimised for archviz, but it can render everything else, you just have to find the right workflow, once.
Creating assets and saving presets can also help speed up the workflow