“all road/all steel”
first off, “all steel” - I’m sure you mean “cro-moly” steel, Huffy etc have an all steel frame, the quality is not the same.
then “all road” - I remember when hybrids were first introduced, seems I think they were road frames with handlebars changed from drops to upright, the tires were more in the line of wider/lower psi “touring’ rather than the narrow/high psi ‘racing’ tires…they came into being to get more people into cycling (alot of people just did not like to bend over as with the drops.
oh, yeah…there is a slight difference between the frame geometry of the touring frame versus racing frame. I’ve ridden both & noticed very little difference in the long run (no pun intended).
I have enjoyed the UniVega’s, Bridgestone’s,
Peugeot’s, Bianchi’s &Columbia’s and prefer Bridgestone. I did build a road/touring bike off a double butted Ishiwata frame I found in a dumpster.I believe that in the 80s, Trek was using Ishiwata frames. Then I bought the best components I could afford.