“Generally, a mole sauce contains a fruit, chili pepper, nut, and such spices as black pepper, cinnamon, or cumin.”
Use a tomato for the fruit and use cumin for a spice, and it sounds a base for chili to me.
I like the mole to be spicy, but also chocolaty. The local Mexican joint I go to always gives me a little extra to go cup of the stuff. Put it on Western omelets the next morning - yum!
Mole’ is definitely not a chili sauce, especially the original Mole’ which was chocolate based, with dozens of ingredients, including chili peppers and pumpkin seeds. Even today, with a dozen or more Mole’ varieties, you would never taste one and think it was chili.