Good luck on the maiden, it's amazing what you learn from some manufacturers ARF, I've built several, some are great, others are horrible, looks like you have a little of both, I don't think you should have to struggle to put something that was originally designed to be put together, put together..... The only concern I have is that it doesn't have a dihedral, I've never flown a plane without it, I did create one from a kit as a kid and forgot about implimenting it, it just refused to fly because that wasn't addressed, it also happened to be a classic cessna.......

In the future, look forward to having to learn it all over, then moving onto kits, then scratch building, then back to arfs, more kits, a RTF once in a while, back to scratch, more kits, more learning it all over again, then an arf, then scratch again, hehe, lmao, you are now initiated to this hobby, this will push your skills in all areas, yes, very intoxicating and fun hobby, good company as well.