Good grasp of the realities. The flat bottom with dihedral has a nice tendency to fly the plane level, giving a solid "at rest" position from which to work around. It also is throttle sensitive to climb or descent, which has both good and bad points later on. You will note, however, that even some high wing sport planes carry a few degrees of dihedral (as do most low-wing warbirds). It ain't all bad to have.

First question I would ask is will you have help from en experienced R/C pilot to get your plane trimmed out and do the first few take-offs and landings (at least) for you? That makes all the difference.

If you want a relatively good compromise kit I would recommend the C.Goldberg Falcon III, but use low rates and bleed off speed before the landing approach. I know lots of flyers who have stables of planes and have years of flight-time and they still wheel out their Kadets and Eagles for relaxed flying or as ski or float planes. I enjoy flying most anything, myself.