The problem with this is that the plugin adopters are most likely aware about the problem and the marginal benefit of this plugin for them would be low

I wonder, why journals are not willing to pay at most 200 usd to a PhD student to at least replicate the results and maybe give some insights. Limiting the sample using one binary variable looks like an easy thing to do and may easily be in standard guidelines for reanalysis of lab results

That is assuming intertemporal elasticity is 0