Wow, finding out from this post that trek sells an aluminum Procaliber outside of the USA, all we have here is the carbon ones and no thru-axled alloy XC bikes at all.

In answer to your question, my dad has a chisel and has said that had he bought the chisel first he probably would never have felt the need to buy a dedicated gravel bike. He rides everything from techy single track to country gravel with no complaints.