Often one of the parameters given is a timeframe that no sane person would request in a real-world setting. The justification I've heard for that is "we don't wan't people spending too long on it."
Unfortunately, I think you're right, at least initially. Not much happens unless the cost of losing access to remote talent becomes too significant to ignore.
Indeed possible. That's partly why the prompt chain is set up to build a 'cheat sheet' type of answer, instead of a fully-formed answer that can be repeated verbatim.