You're not the first person to ask, and not the first to do the "I want to make things harder and feel like I earned it" thing, either. The responses you all got are the same, though: the worst way to become an officer is to enlist first. Once you enlist, your ass belongs to the Navy, and the Navy cares not for your dreams and desires and schedules.
If you have the means to become an officer without enlisting - do it.
Possibly quite true today...but "back in the day", USN bent over backwards to make the "NavCad" program available to me.
Suggested some appropriate USAFI correspondence courses for me to complete; flew me from Rota to Port Lyautey, Morocco on RON's once or twice for physicals and other tests; allowed me to retake all my "basic battery" (enlisted) tests; aided in some other ways as well. And it all worked out well...for both me
and USN. To this day, I enjoyed being a "Bluejacket"...and I believe my experience as such aided me greatly during my commissioned career. (Didn't meet many other fighter/attack pilots wearing Good Conduct medal back then.)
And, of course, until I finally separated ten years after joining up...and even as a mid-grade, experienced, combat qualified A7 IP (1310)...Navy
still owned my ass...and never let me forget it!! (LOL!!)