Great post Amarië!
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..if his fëa were strong, it would leave the hröa. Then one of two things would happen: either this would be accomplished only in hate, by violence, and the hröa, in full life would be rent and die in sudden agony; or else the fëa would in loathing and without pity desert the hröa, and it would live on, a witless body, nor even a beast but a monster, a very work of Melkor
Aman and Mortal Men; HoME10 'Morgoth's Ring'
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Isn't that pretty close to what happened to the Men wearing the Nine Rings? Since that is suggested to be the work of Melkor, it would be assumable that the unending life that was part of the "gifts" of the Seven and the Nine would be a thing related to or contrieved by Sauron. It explicitly states in letter #131 that the invisibility conferred by the Seven and Nine were powers of Sauron.
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The Three Elven Rings did not confer invisibility, because this is a power from Sauron, and Sauron did not have a part in the creation of the Three Elven Rings, nor did he ever touch them.
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..They had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them. They could walk, if they would, unseen by all eyes in this world beneath the sun, and they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men...
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I might be wrong but I connect the invisibility and the unending life of the Nine, to the "gifts" and "powers" that Sauron influenced them with during their making (or when he perverted them later). Rather than to the wish of the elves to preserve things unaltered.