Re 1: Discussing and guiding the desirable theorems for general-purpose programs has been a major challenge for us. Proofs for their own sake (bad?) vs glorious general results (good but hard?). Actual human guidance there can be critical there at least for now.
https://github.com/jsmorph/leanexe
I think I managed to use Talos to prove the WAT generated from an example LeanExe program is correct. ?
https://gist.github.com/jsmorph/275a15dc21af037e1d02a1b433be...
Fun.