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Chaley
Almost everything from Adventure, Ridgeback and Genesis is catalogue bike or just nothing special.
The hub motors are the suntour ones? They are pretty good, probably the most torque, or at least feels like it with low loads of any hub motor I've tried (carrera/halfords brands use them aswell).
Some of the ridgeback et al brands use the Italian "sport drive" mid drive, which is pretty good, on par with the average Brose units that you see on equivalent European local branded catalogue bikes.
Brose aren't all good though, their biggest baddest '100nm' or 110nm (?) cargo performance top daddy motor launched in about 2022 is very quiet compared to almost all other mid drives due to the belt arrangement. But does not have 100nm+ of torque, no way. Tested back to back with my now old shimano e8000 and newer e6100, Bosch cargo on a nice hill with bags of aggregate.
The e8000 certainly has the most mid range kick and then allows you to rev out to over 100 rpm with stable assistance, 120 rpm its basically zero. E6100 is OK but kinda flat feeling. Bosch activ line is less, performance is similar to e6100 and just feels flat on a cargo. CX Cargo line has probably the most actual torque down low, so would suit folk who grind and start off in the wrong gear, but if your a keen rider and cadence is up above 85 rpm it gives much less at the top end, pretty quiet though and reliable enough, had a few failures but always within the first month of use, if they get past that point they are all still out there doing their thing haven't come back!