Your advice is all very good, any user should read this article of yours to get started. Even I skipped several steps when I started because I didn't really understand how Hive worked. For example, I skipped the introduction post and the possibility of being voted by the OCBD community. That mistake, in retrospect, I could have avoided by perhaps informing myself better about blockchain activities.
So I would add: before you start get to know Hive and all its merits :)