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First, I must tell you that you must forget about using the hands. Just forget about the hands entirely! The thought that you even have any hands on your body should be removed from your cognitive awareness. Doing anything with the hands, other than gripping the club to transfer the body's forces to the golf club is bad - in the worse way. The hands should be thought of as nothing more than being in casts as you start the downswing. The hands will react to the forces automatically near impact. (If you want to discuss the downswing further after reading this I will explain how the hands work deep into the downswing near impact.)
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This is where we totally agree! .. I spent a year getting my hand action out of the downswing but learning to feel where they and the clubhead were in response to what other parts of my body (i.e. the forearms etc) were doing
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At the very beginning of the downswing the right shoulder tip must move down toward your belly button or your feet - not outward. (Just rotating or pivoting the shoulders around the spine [on a rather level plane] is what causes the structure to move outward in an over-the-top position, which once that happens you can never recover - and thus the swing will be a bad swing. Moving the right shoulder outward throws the entire right side structure outward, which of course throws the arms and the club outward - outside the plane.)
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This is where we dont fully agree maybe. I think if you shift/rotate your lower body, whilst keeping your shoulders back/facing the target, the right shoulder will drop too and give you some axis tilt. Rotation from the ground up doesnt mean the shoulders rotate out too, they will and should move down, out and around in response to a proper lower body move - at least thats how I feel it happening. Do you agree?