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Definitely agree.
There's probably no such thing as a bike for life, and if there was, when speccing it, I'd be glad I waited until I had a few years of experience riding fixed. A lot of off-the-peg bikes have pretty reasonable/neutral frames (in terms of geometry and handling, rather than 'look'), and you'll find that once you've become better acquainted with your steed, you start to get fussy about contact points and wheels etc. After a bit of experimenting with components till you know what you like, you'll probably have more suss about frames/forks.
That's when you can get your frame for life... but you'll probably be getting another frame for life 5 to 10 years after that - if you're not dead :-O