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But you're defining road bike as race bike, here. My Fratello was a road bike with endurance geometry. A Dawes Galaxy is a road bike with touring geometry. I wanted a road/gravel bike with endurance geometry - if I wanted racing geometry, maybe I'd have bought a CX bike.
Edit to add - the Fratello has 52mm of trail; the Bivio has 55mm of trail. Neither of those feels particularly slouchy, but they're not as aggressive as some bikes.
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Some people get on with that kind of geo and that's fine, others (myself included) can find it like driving a boat. There are guidelines such as bikes for rougher terrain having slower handling so they don't twitch every time you hit a rock but there's room for adjustment to how you prefer it.
PhilDAS is right in that a CX bike will generally be more similar to a road bike geo than a gravel bike because CX bikes are for racing and need quick handling, I generally agree with his opinion that they make more sense for mostly road-some off road bikes but they can lack some stuff like mounts for bottles, mudguards etc and the higher BB will make them feel less stable for cornering and descending. Also some do struggle to take tyres fatter than 33 or 35.
As an aside I quite like the look of the Bivio with thru-axels. My main complaint with Condor bikes is usually price.