Upgrade XPS 8900 1TB HDD to Samsung SSD - Is this a sound plan?

I'll be unboxing my new XPS 8900 this weekend containing a 1TB HDD and Windows 10.  My ultimate plan is to add/replace this with a Samsung 850 SSD (likely a 1TB) and have a clean install of Windows 10.  Based on this goal and what I've gathered online, my plan would be as follows:

1. Boot up 8900 and activate Windows 10 (so Microsoft's servers recognize this license on my PC
2. Create bootable Windows 10 media (likely USB) from MS direct downloads
3. Download and install various specific drivers from Dell website for 8900
4. Install SSD
5. Perform clean Windows 10 install to SSD using bootable USB; install any necessary drivers gathered in step 3.
6. Re-activate windows 10 license with MS as needed (is this automatic since registered in step 1?)
7. Either remove original HDD or reformat to use as secondary drive

Questions:

1. Any flaws with this plan?
2. Any reason I can't do without the various Dell applications/utilities that wouldn't come over in this process?
3. Any reason why I can't obtain all the necessary drivers via a combination of Windows (automatically) and manual downloads from Dell's site?
4. Any reason to retain the recovery partition on the original HDD?
5. Any reason to alternatively use Samsung's cloning feature instead of taking my steps above?

Any thoughts would be most welcomed.

Thanks!