A player new to the game (Agree with Tony) is wasting hiz money throwing it at the big name, big ad, high priced stuff.
Get a reasonable priced blade and rubbers SUITABLE for the desired playing style and call it a day.
A new player simply isn't going to learn the game by himself to an advanced level any time soon. An expensive as all letout bat or a cheeper one will (if the player is not getting coaching) still get a player to the same place. Lack of coaching and on the spot correction will not correct poor or ineffective technique and tactics. A faster bat (or even a SLOWER one) will not fix a player's inability to read spin, anticipate, have a good stance, bend the knees, use effective movement, use good balance and recovery, knowing when and how to strike the ball... You see where I am going with this?
The pundits recommend a slowish 5 ply wood blade with thin sponged control rubbers to learn the game. These pundits say that the reasoning is that it is tried and true, it forces the player to "hit through" the ball to create pace instead of being lazy and use the bat's overall fast rating to more lazily create pace.
On a level, the pace creating and striking the ball thing is right, but a player on their own without effective coaching will not learn the things I described above very quickly, if EVER, without a coach or someone who knows what they are doing next to them showing them what they did wrong and how to fix it. That is coaching anyway.
The problem with the OFF+ bats is that is mighty difficult to get the timing and feel right for learning how to topspin the ball without crush smashing through the ball. Many situations, one needs to control topspin or heavy slow/medium topspin the ball to create the chance to go ballistic on the next ball. An OFF+ blade with the fastest low throw rubbers does not exactly facilitate that. That is where I agree with and also depart from pundits' thinking.
Pundits say you need a slow setup and coaching. Of course that will work to get a player to a higher level, it has worked for eons, but it is NOT the only effective way.
Even with a ridiculous fast OFF++ bat, a player can learn the game and move up in level. Korean coaches allow or have their new players buy some of the fastest and most expensive stuff on the planet. Why? The Koreans believe in hitting through the ball and will have their players do brutal (Tony will tell you) multiball drills, and later single ball drills. The coaches will have many new players do endless shadow stroke practice in front of mirrors (ALL Korean clubs have HUGE mirrors) and the coaches are huge into correcting the flaws. They start out with the FH drive and the new players stay with that stroke forever before learning different topspins (if they ever pass coach's tough standards first) (like 500 FH drives high speed close to table) This system also works.
That is why I depart from pundits, because I know there is more than one way to skin a cat, yet I agree with much pundit thinking in that certain things are pretty much set and have to be reckoned with to play TT successful... like stance, balance, footwork, timing, how to use the body. You got to get these things down effective in order to play at a decent level.
An OFF+ bat or a DEF speed bat without coaching will get you pretty much to the same place... no very far, unless you got all your life or you are one in a million.
A blade in the All+ to OFF- or low OFF range with a control rubber for a player aspiring to be a flexible offensive player gives him or her the equipment suitable to learn and excel at that playing style. Combined with coaching, it will work.
Whether it is a $200 USD name brand job or one of my "Der_Echte Special" or a "Monster Modified 896" or an Allround Evolution or WHATEVER... Anything in the range of ALL+ to Low end OFF with modern (or old school) control rubbers is a sweet spot to learn the sport.
