I didn't have a lecture in mind. It's your bike, your preference!
One more thing I forgot. With all the tapered head tube/integrated headset non-sense these days, make sure you get a fork that will work with your current headset design. Looks like your bike uses a standard 1 1/8" steerer tube. That's good. The Kenesis fork is probably 1 1/8" also but check to make sure. If so the fork crown race should swap over ok.