ORIGINAL: 2MuchThrow
Bad advice...
If your beginner, what ever you do....do not build a traditional kit. Choose a balsa ARF...
If you build a traditional kit, you will fall in love with your plane, it will take you 5X longer to learn to fly than the guy with the ARF and about 10X longer than the guy with the SPAD. After you learn to fly, than learn to build. Make your second plane a scale warbird to get that out of your system.
Hate to say it, but this is worse advice than the other. I strongly dissagree with your logic.
Different strokes for different folks. Anyone can learn on any of the 3 choices give, but I think ARFs teach people the least affectively of any of them.
Do it any way you want, but don't come on so strong. All 3 are doable, but many people would agree that ARF is not the best way to start.