Good idea ! What is the size of the balls ?
When I read posts like yours, and when a bit high, I always get to wonder how heats works. How does it flow through all the different material and through the air. And, in the end, what is heat ?
Heat can best (easiest) be described as the vibration of the atoms that compose the material being heated. It's one way energy is transferred from atom to atom. The more energy you put into an atom the faster (more energetically) it vibrates, and as it does so, it causes any other atoms next to it to start vibrating too as some of that energy transfers to them - this is essentially conduction.
Heat has two main elements - temperature, which is fairly straightforward to understand, but also it has a quantity too. which is often measured in calories or for the scientists something like joule's. You can have a tiny amount or quantity of heat, and yet it can have a very high temperature. Because the quantity is small, it can dissipate through the material with the temperature dropping accordingly as the heat diffuses through it.
The various balls used have a number of major properties that'll effect how the vape works:
Thermal conductivity - how fast heat can travel through the material
Heat capacity - how much heat (calories) can be stored by the material.
The size and shape of the 'balls' which effects how heat is conducted from ball to ball, and also effects how the air flows through the matrix, and how the air picks up heat from the balls as it does so.
All these factors (and I've not included many more factors that will effect behaviour such as the stem, and the heating method and process, the size and shape of the matrix container (the cap), etc etc etc) will change how the vape works, it's profile so to speak, and not always in an immediately obvious manner.
Borosilicate's for example will have a higher conductivity and lower thermal capacity than zirconium.
This means they heat up faster because the heat travels into and throughout the matrix much faster (high conductivity), but the amount of heat it can hold is more limited (lower heat capacity) so when it's capacity is reached, if heating is continued the temp will start to rise much faster once the cap is in equilibrium (heat dissipating vs heat being put in (by the flame or IH)) and you're more likely to over heat it and ultimately combust no inhaling.
I'm simplifying this enormously from a physics point of view, to try and explain the basic principals. But the gist is there's a complex set of interactions going on and simply selecting a different material because it has a higher or lower conductivity, or capacity, won't
just make it hotter, or hold more heat at same temp, etc. It changes the whole balance of the things and how it works.
So you can make a guess at how it will change, but it's experience actually using the new matrix you choose that'll inform you far more than trying to scientifically work it out. I suspect experimentation is king here, the material is just one factor involved, so expect surprises too sometimes.