The results people gain from examining their lives are not illusory. They CAN be instigated by auditing, but quite clearly (TM), sometimes the opposite can happen. The old quote of "the unexamined life is not worth living" I agree with. While it can be nice to sail through life without errors, and without problems, this is typically not the case for most people. The purpose of processing/auditing is to help the person redress errors, come out of confusions, and cease being stuck in charge/games-conditions.
It is always the being who does this work. Others can help him to orient, so that he can look, and complete incomplete cycles of action, or so that he can see the origins of some decision he made, and decide to end that decision, and either make some new decision, now that he has time to reflect, or decide that he hadn't fully understood what was happening in the first place, so any decision made without full comprehension would have been likely erroneous (although a stopped clock is right two times a day, except in the military).
The illusion is that the "pcs gains" are attributable to the auditor or to the "founder" of the "tech". The pcs gains are always a result of the pc looking, or the pc building some skill. The auditor can help orient, and the idea of the C/S training is to provide a schedule/program of steps to take to get the person looking "at the right thing", which isn't really necessary, IMO, so long as the communication channel is open and the rapport is good. The person knows where their attention is, and what they need to look at. It can help to suggest things, when a person is repressed from looking in specific directions, but this also runs the danger of the pc relying on the auditor to shape his reality.
I've had surprising success asking "Was there something you thought I should ask you about but haven't yet?" when sessions are bogging.
Thank you for this excellent and lucid post.