At the risk of repeating myself and being one of those who earlier recommended an ARF, I did go back and do some reading of earlier postings.

They have joined a club.
The club has several instructors they can choose wisely from and plan to do so.
The club has "Club trainer planes" they can use for initial flight training and not risk theirs.

Sounding like a non-issue. IMHO I also did not not want them to risk these rare planes as initial trainers and they do not plan to.