No - this can only be done via manual.

We have that use case for AEM 5.6 - but it will show you how - Adobe Experience Manager Help | Creating a custom Adobe Experience Manager PDF service

Exactly -- only admin should have access to CRXDE lite. Authors have access to Touch UI views - like Site admin.

YOu can write a custom solution that can query authors and then dump them into a SPREADSHEET.

You can develop very powerful custom resource types that you can drop into a component dialog. This is done via JS. We have an example of creating a custom resource type here: Adobe Experience Manager Help | Creating a custom Experience Manager 6.4 sling:resourceType for Touch UI

I have asked the team that wrote this to answer here.

I am checking with the TOUCH UI experts on this.

I do not believe AEM supports this. At least - i have never seen clientlibs used this way or read anywhere this was supported.

That could be a bug. I have never used it to develop components. I will check with the Community product team to see if anyone knows about this,

If you look at the Weekend tutorial, which is a great guideline for AEM development, there is no mention of using this framework. Adobe recommends HTL for component development. Core components are all HTL based.