Hot sauce exists to embody the opposite - to jazz up any meal with not just heat and spice but flavor. It doesn't matter if you prefer the hottest of hot or the mildest of mild, the reason you add hot sauce to a dish is to incorporate zing and complexity.
Red Devil's ingredients come down to distilled vinegar, red cayenne peppers aged with salt, and ... that's it. It's thickened with guar gum and xantham gum, which don't add flavor of course but are supposed to be thickeners and fail even at that.
Today, we have access to hot sauces made in the traditions of cuisines from around the world that incorporate various herbs and spices and achieve whole, individual flavor profiles. Simple cayenne that isn't even that spicy is dull, and not enough to balance the vinegar.
To understand why Red Devil falls short, compare it to other hot sauces and look at flavor profiles from around the world. Many brands know you need other elements in your sauce to balance the acidity. They add different peppers, herbs, and spices to provide sweetness.
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