I'm with Jo on everything, with a few comments of my own here on your plan...

The two items that jump out at me the most are, you're only...

I'm probably the most boring one here...
If SQL Server vanished from the face of the earth tonight, and I had to find a new role / job tomorrow, I'd...

I would expect if you launch the install from the command line, you ought to be able to specify the location for the system databases.  Seeing as it looks like...

So...
If someone's wife woke them up at 3am when they had to get up for work at 6am, because the toilet kept running, and the someone couldn't really get...

That feeling when you're trying to figure out how to take a basic bit of code someone gave you (Thank you again Phil Parkin!) and get it to work for...

My question to you would be, is the SQL Server instance that you're trying to run this package on, and the system that you've been using Visual Studio to develop...

Reading the editorial and the assorted comments, my thoughts are that providing some sort of mentorship or apprenticeship to new hires would be a very good thing for just about...