Choose your bike for your own reasons. Ride it hard and put it away wet or baby it or park it forever in your trophy room. Enjoy ride, the lugs, the paint, or whatever it is that attracted you. Not all of an object's value can be measured by a scale or a stopwatch.

Carbon Trek? Merlin? Redline? Doesn't matter. If it thrills you to ride it, great. If you can spend hours admiring the welds, super. If it's just a tool to use and wear out, fine.
As Saint Augustine said, Love and do what you will.