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Wow. Tried looking at a few salsa bikes this evening, and it makes surly's range look logical. So many types of gravel bikes, bikes for racing on (...on gravel), some bikes which are simply "all road" and others that seem to be a cross of all of the above. I've no idea how anyone chooses one, and the sizing charts/suggestions are so far off conventional sizing that i'm left totally stumped.
I find much the same with Surly's. The midnight special and straggler are minutely different geometrically, but reviewers seem convinced that the midnight special is really a true road bike (with a 71.5 degree head angle) and the straggler (with much the same...) is pretty much a mountain bike!
What a bizarre world this whole new niche of racing, touring, adventuring, offroad, onroad, 650b adventure bikes is. What a load of shit as well.
Choice is good. Nowt worse than having to put up with a limited number of design options, being pigeon-holed into someone else's limitations.
Having said that, for the cost of some of the Salsas I'd rather (and have) gone full custom.
I think Salsa and surly are owned by the same company.
Salsas prices have gone silly ever since ison ditched them. Raleigh tried and failed.
I think for the money there are far better options out there.