Mixed and melding leading to cooking

It (I.E., 'The End') looks a lot like the actual KFC color seen here. A bit on the red side:

I noticed the smoky taste of the Ancho, but I seem to get the same smokiness for Tones Chili Powder, so I'm figuring it also uses Ancho (along with onion powder, garlic powder, oregano, cumin, and salt). But I've never exceeded 0.5 grams with the Tones blend, and I just added 3 grams of the pure Ancho. Ancho sort of tastes like Smoked Paprika.

Ok, here's the "The End?" recipe's eating report.

First the good:
1) Looked (and looks) perfect. Done to perfection.
2) The oil was hardly darkened at all by the 3 grams of Ancho Pepper.
3) Sorry, but that's it for the 'good' category.

Now for the bad:
1) No real note of KFC OR. My wife said this is perhaps the worst recipe I ever cooked. Nothing seems right about it.
2) Ginger Overload. Needs cut back to 1 gram where I'm happy with it.
3) Not enough Salt, and too much Garlic. That plus it needs more MSG.
4) Not enough Pepper. Needs about 0.25g. of Cayenne by my reckoning.
5) It's literally crying for Sage. About 0.75 grams needed. (This is the first recipe for which I intentionally left Sage out.)
6) Thyme and Oregano both have to go. Adding them in after a good number of batches without them really trashed the taste.
7) Savory can stay, but needs to be reduced by half.
8) Ancho is a major bust. I'll likely never consider it again. No benefit at all. Odd taste. Waste of time.
9) This recipe couldn't stand up to my old favorite Recipe #4, let alone my best and most note expressing recipe #17.
7) The Allspice, Mace, and Clove combo is a major bust. Back to using Clove, Nutmeg, Mace, and Cinnamon for sure, as for #17.

Well, that about wraps things up. Needless to say, I'm shocked by just how bad this recipe is.

Eating report for November 8, 2022 dated recipe titled "This is the one!".

1) This isn't the one! Recipe #17 with Cayenne Pepper added was/is much better in my opinion.
2) Allspice has to go. I can't make it work. Either that or the Mace needs to be cut down. The two together expressed some sort of overload.
3) A bit too much Ginger. 1 Oz. even would have been better.
4) The Pepper was way under-expressed, and there was zero lingering Pepper bite. Plus it seriously lacked in White Pepper.
5) I'm pretty sure now that White and Black Pepper must both be 3.00 grams. And that Cayenne must be on the order of about 0.50 grams.
6) I don't think the Anise Seed was helping anything. It needs to go away (for awhile, if not for good).
7) I don't think that either Thyme or Marjoram need to be in there at all. Both need to go. That opens a door to Tarragon.
8) Salt fell way short of where I believe KFC would be. 32 grams of Salt are going in next time.