Any engineer would know the kind of troubles that can occur if we remove a critical principle of the original design that was there since the system's inception and is literally hardcoded on an operational/abstract level into the system's functions. Trying to fix that mess is unlikely to yield anything close to the original and requires manipulating techniques and knowledge highly intimate within the system.
And we know barely anything about the intimate and detail operation of the molecular structures inside a cell. We know the broad strokes. But ask any biochemist if they are confident of the entire reaction pathway of any enzymes down to the thermodynamics calculations associated with all conformational changes. Maybe you will find a dozen enzymes that we can describe at this detail.
And to optimize cell free synthesis, we would need to know of tens of thousands more. It is possible, but it isn't something I would expect to see soon unless there are major breakthroughs.