I love mine. I bought the dirt cheapest E5 alu version with Claris on in a sale. Didn’t expect much, but the Claris actually quite good.
I rode it like that for a few weeks (and actually came 3rd overall in the Gold Rush GravelCross race), then swapped everything out for SRAM Rival 1/ with Hunt Gravel/4 Season wheels and Panaracer GravelKings. That’s dropped the weight from 10.55 kgs to 9.05kgs. Nice 🙂
If you want a bike to just put a big smile on your face, it is great. It’ll be fine for your intended use but is in fact a very capable bike. It’s not just a good bike for the price, it’s a good bike. Period.
I say this as someone who doesn’t really like specialized by the way, to me, they’re too common, too much marketing hype, and too many stupid engineering decisions with press fit crud, proprietary bb widths and such like. I’m eating humble pie regarding the Diverge though.