Yes, purple bikes are the coolest and definitely the fastest.
Here's the one I got my wife for X-mas this past year (so she now has a full squish for the single track stuff we do a lot of).
We're definitely not a "do it all bike" kinda family, much more N+1 when it comes to bikes. She's got 3, I'm now at 4. We each have a fully suspension, a hard tail (the first MTBs each of us got, and I still love my Trek Stache which is the most "do it all" bike that I have), and a gravel/cross bike. And then I have a true road bike that currently is just used on the smart trainer, but will become my gravel grinder this Spring/Summer (Trek Domane which can take up to a 35c tire....at which point I may need to get rid of my Salsa, which I do love).
Anyway, in about a month I'm doing a ride down in south west Virginia on gravel. 35 miles, a bit over 3,400 ft of climbing. I opted for the short course so I could get back and start drinking early. My wife and some of her friends opted for the 65 mile distance with 6,700 of climbing - including a monster at mile 45. We're both all geeked up about gearing options at the moment. Her gravel bike is a 1x11, but she's considering taking the safe route and just riding it on her hardtail (2x10). Both my Salsa and my Domane are 2x10, but I'm pretty limited on how big of a cassette I can install on each.