Personally, I find the phrase cold brew about as meaningless as hot brew. People make awful tasting hot brew every day, but no one blames the use of heat for the poor taste, nor questions whether the coffee used is still specialty grade. If you can describe the recipe for the cold brew that you don’t like, look at it and ask yourself what you can do to make it better. If you can’t make it better (doubtful, though you still may not find it as pleasing as chilled hot brew), move on. We can all sit here & criticise aspects of coffee we don’t personally like. I don’t drink milk, but if I suggested a flat white, or cortado couldn’t be specialty, because I wouldn’t drink it, that would be absurd. Coffee is a man-made beverage, we always make it, it does not simply occur - make it & drink it how you like it.
If you don’t want to bother & want to chill hot drip/espresso great, it certainly saves an awful lot of time, but following cold brew recipes, or buying products made by someone else, that you know do not make a beverage that you want to drink & expecting to somehow magically stumble on something different seems illogical.