Yes. It’s salt. So it is Salty.
Sometimes you hope that the company doesn’t skimp on the secondary ingredients. I feel the secondaries can be more substantial but if this is version 1.0. Then a wee bit of improvement is standard.
Hotness - the hotness is a good amount. Wanting to make your dish hotter, you put more on and it’s just a salty mess. Let’s bring up the scovilles on this one 50K-100K.
Other: no sugar. This is excellent. It’s hard to find a hot spice mix that doesn’t involve sugar. That’s the reason I went with this one. (However some of their other ones do have sugar in them. Beware)