Taller seat, checkcommon characteristics of true ADV bikes
- higher ground clearance
- longer suspension travel
- steel, spoked wheels
- moderate DS tires
- engine bars
- skid plate
- hand guards
- heated grips
- tall windshield
CB500X has none of those things
all it has without spending a lot of dough is styling
and it is great styling, very attractive bike
of course it will have Honda dead-nuts reliability too
but it is not an ADV bike
Bigger tank, check
Easy maintenance, check
Higher ground clearance than the other 500s, check
Ergonomics for long distance touring, check
Also if they didn't want it to do any type of offroad they wouldn't outfit it with 90/10 tires.
Riding in sand and rivers, check (these arent the stock tires, but stock wheels) https://photos.app.goo.gl/8FKTdASjAtb9ca8CA
Also it's a lot lighter and more manoeuvrable because of how light it is, there's been a huge movement of guys on bigger adv bikes switching to this one (if you check the adv rider forum thread)
When looking on google, one of the first results i'd found:


If you join a few cb500x groups you get to see what crazy stuff they commonly put their bikes through, even stock. Quite fascinating.