While Cannondale doesn't make a tourer anymore (My LBS did find one still in stock for a customer.) their first production bike was a tourer, which made sense as they made bags and such for touring and camping. Cannondale was about eight years behind Klein, who innovated the big tube aluminum diamond frame, AFIK.

Except for perhaps some 7XXX series aluminum nothing is as third world readily repairable as steel, if CF touring frames appear they could perhaps work with a fiberglass repair, I don't know. As I've put thousands of miles on aluminum frames over the last two decades, touring on my new to me Cannondale touring bike makes perfectly good sense.

Brad