There are fancy cocktails and weird alcohols. Look at fancy gins, absinthe, some fine whiskeys (stay the fuck away from rye), some wines when properly paired, plum wine…
Then there’s cases where already tasty stuff can be enhanced with booze that’s not good to drink on its own.
But generally yes alcohol tastes bad and people are just trying to make getting drunk less harrowing.
I once tried a coke with vodka, it tasted better without the vodka and im not even a fan of coke.
There are fancy cocktails and weird alcohols. Look at fancy gins, absinthe, some fine whiskeys (stay the fuck away from rye), some wines when properly paired, plum wine…
Then there’s cases where already tasty stuff can be enhanced with booze that’s not good to drink on its own.
But generally yes alcohol tastes bad and people are just trying to make getting drunk less harrowing.