I came in here to agree - and I sort of do. But I think that red delicious apples are by far the worst kind of commercially available apple - golden delicious aren't great, but they're nowhere near the bland, mealy, wooden taste of the red apples that do not deserve any speck of their 'delicious' moniker.
Ambrosia or Gala are my two go-to eating apples. Honeycrisp are good, but they're not so good as to justify the price increase - I assume they must cold store more poorly than other apples as they cost about twice as much any time that's not harvest season.
Granny smiths are good for cooking but sometimes when they're raw they're like eating the most sour crabapple with a tougher texture.
Having said that, the woody, mealy texture that apples occasionally get isn't always reserved for red delicious - they just seem more prone to it. Better to use them to make juice or cider and save the proper table apples for eating.