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You intend to buy top-of-the-range components because you don't want the bother of upgrading, but buy a budget frame you do intend to upgrade?
I thought the object of the exercise was to learn about the maintenance side of things and how to put a bike together?
Clear lacquer is pointless: it will corrode beneath the lacquer. If the question is "what's a cheap durable finish", the answer is "powder coating".
If it's 126mm at the rear (the standard OLD for 5 to 7 speed), then it's entirely possible a ten/eleven speed cassette will foul the chain stay.
If it's Eighties, it won't take brakes with recessed, Allen head mounting nuts.
Etc, etc.
And it's not a Raleigh.