My wife has just bought 1000£ gravel bike with Sora.Sora is above claris but below tiagra.
claris>sora>tiagra>105>ultegra>dura-ace
it's perfectly decent, often found on bikes at 1000£.
Not bike-snob friendly though
She also has a Sora groupset on her old turbo bike, at least four times a week over the last ten or so years it's gets copious amounts of sweat thrown at it, keeps functioning without a problem, her idea of maintenance is drip some 3 in 1 on it once a year,