I had a very similar experience as @Emrikol, except I did some save scrumming just to explore some different outcomes.
When I do another playthrough (waiting for a few more patches to go through to iron out the bugs) I'll likely try something like you've outlined and not do any at all, minus some room for misclicks.
I also have this idea about not looting any containers that aren't either chests or quest/story related.
