As a CRK lover and owner of 3 sebenzas, I honestly think newer blade enthusiasts should go for the four decent knives first. If you're new to the higher end stuff, you won't get the same awe factor out of a sebenza as someone who's been sifting through the benchmades spydies and ZTs for years searching for the perfect knife. I only recently got my first sebenza (early December lest year) and even I wasn't blown away upon first seeing it. I knew all of the awesome features and whatnot, but it took a good few days of carry and use to start warming up to it. A less experienced enthusiast like yourself might be severely disappointed and be turned off to the sebenza forever if they get one too soon.
There's also the value factor. If you're looking for pure utility, there's very little the seb can do that a 100 spydie can't. And the new ZTs are a pretty damn good value in terms of performance, materials, aesthetics, and fit and finish. Either brands best offerings will give most knife people more than enough satisfaction, and do it at half the cost.
The sebenza is really only for those that want to go above and beyond in terms of tolerences and perfection, but most of that perfection is not able to be appreciated by someone without a good deal of prior experience in the higher end production folder market.
So in short, if I were in your position I would go for the handful of decent knives over the sebenza.
However, at this point in
my "knife journey",
I would take the seb any day over a bunch of decent knives. The cf inlayed one in my avatar to be exact
You kinda have to work your way up in this game.