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welcome to the Forum.

dont worry about the tent you have bought, It is a good tent

All you have to worry about now is spending too much time on here and reading about all the latest must haves for camping, seriously dents the credit card.

Welcome to UKCS.

Don't worry about the tent they are excellent tents that tick all the boxes.

Don't worry about the pitching. The Outwell videos are pretty honest. They only usually take liberties when it comes to folding the tent back up to pack into the bag:  by the miracle of editing all the trapped air (that makes folding a bit of a pain sometimes) simply vanishes - in the real world you will have to squeeze this out (well the Nevada M video is like this).

As already said the main worry is what you will want to buy next. But in the tent department, you are well sorted.

It is allways handy to have some spare poles for emergency situations, hopefully they will never be needed though.

As for pegs, the ones that usually come with tents are pretty thin and easily bent so i would recommend getting some stronger ones, It would appear that most campers gather a collection of different pegs over time to deal with different situations.

depending on the ground you are camping on.

As for the carpet and electrical items, If this is the first time camping then dont worry about them, make do with what you can. you can then decide what things you need to make your camping trips better.

Just have a quick look at ebay for complete camping kits used once, that will tell you the people that have gone out and bought the whole lot and then realised that camping is not for them.