That does sound like a nice, clean workflow, Andrea and in many ways superior to mine.
But I've decided to compromise in some ways, and gain speed/time (for me it's never been about the disk space, I have oodles of it).
Now I think about it, my change in attitude came when I switched from my 7D to an Olympus micro 4/3 camera and I think there were two factors:
1) The EVF meant that suddenly I was shooting 90% of my pictures with perfect settings in-camera. I think this is sometimes overlooked as the best thing about the mirrorless cameras (now that the EVF is so good)
2) The Oly colours are beautiful
So, I found the quality of the in-camera jpgs were amazing 90% of the time and I was able to have a really simple camera to Mac to iPad workflow. If I am not shooting birds I won't even use raw, but when conditions are changing quickly and I might get exposure wrong, I use raw. This does mean I have an extra couple of hours wait while my Mac slowly converts to jpg when I get home, or I'd have to sort them using the raw files which is a drag. It's also the first time I've used the camera-brand software, to make sure I get the perfect colours.
Of course, one day I might think "I wish I had the RAW to retouch this photo in a new style," but I have consciously decided to take the other route and I have no pretensions that it is the right direction for anyone else but me.