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Totally, but I think just like in cycling 'endurance' style shoes with meaty soles and thick rubber are very good at that middle ground. My Asics GT2000s were great at those, non-technical off-road as well as long, easy runs on road. The Marathon Mondial of the shoe world.
Just like in cycling, though, they were also quite slow and wafty so I suppose these Salomons are the Specialized Crux of running shoes? Idk.
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I don't like the term, but a shoe that's not road or off road specific is good thing in my mind.
I often find I wished there was a middle shoe. Road ones usually very slick, and most off roads are quite knobbly, and I end up occasionally wishing I had a middle ground when you want to do a 50/50 run on gravel paths and road, but the gravel can be muddy and slippy, but off road shoes wear out so fast if you use them on tarmac.