If you dilute and do the right stuff to bring out the flavor, smoking them helps, they have a really nice flavor but you gotta cut the spice down to reasonable to get yourself there. It's like overproof liquor, if you reduce your portion based on increased abv instead of trying to get extra fucked up by using the same amount you'll notice it works better for a lot of coctails cause you're using less of something stronger, the only difference is less water in the liquor and more from the mix. That can react with sugars and acids in what you add in a more flavorful way. People just always use too much. Spice perverts dont understand pepper elegance. There is no accounting for taste entirely but people use ingredients badly all the time and hot peppers are a big example. I like spicy foods because irritated taste buds are sensitive and make other stuff good. Spice breaks the defenses and you gotta have something else to infiltrate