Some things you don't need to worry about.
Top gear and spinning out. Eddy rode a top of 53x13. Maitre Jacques rode a top of 52x14. You are not faster than those guys. If you are spinning out you need to learn how to spin, not to keep using bigger gears to compensate for poor technique. And using big fat tires gives you bigger gears automatically.
Pedal strike? Really? When I raced a Cinelli with 82mm of drop and 700x22 tires with big wide Campy 1037/a pedals, pedal strike was there all the time. And it never mattered. It just doesn't. As high as most bikes sit today and with minimalist clipless pedals it takes some strange cornering technique - not just fast aggressive cornering - to ground a pedal. And if you do ground a pedal so what. The bike business wants to keep the BB high because they figure you are a klutz with a PI attorney. If you are not a complete klutz never think about this again. Or seek out lower BBs. Low BB corners better. Makes you more aero.
Modern retail bikes all have high trail. Again because the industry thinks you are a klutz, are going to fall off your bike. If you want massive stability to keep you upright (because you can't without it) go along with the industry and get the high trail bike. If you are just insensitive to differences in trail, take trail off your list of criteria. To me a bike with trail above 60 handles like a truck. Above 65 you have a BSO. Any imaginable downside to lower trail doesn't exist until you are talking numbers that do not exist on production bikes. Well, if you are riding technical singletrack you might want higher trail. Maybe you might or maybe you wouldn't. But you said gravel. As trail gets higher wide handlebars are required to make the bike steer at all. Wide is anti-aero. If you were worried a minute ago about spinning out, you don't want wide 'bars.
Pick a bike for reasons that matter. Not for reasons that matter to the legal department and the marketing boys.