1) I'm doing the same as you are doing with the draft.
Basically, I'm currently finding "the draft" one of the more interesting aspects of this game.
2) As written on previous messages on this thread, there is not much with having the draft live.
There are very rare cases where you have 3 players (or more), that are really worth a pick, that in case one is picked will change your preference.
3) I do think that things here could "get live", and draft is one of them (only that I think that in this case there is no reason, as written above.
I want to remind that the auction system is a live process!