The RPC, along with the teacher's guide materials, seems like not just a great set of resources to use when thinking about how to guide the structure of student research, but also a great way to guide time management. By setting non-official deadlines, the RPC (and the Assignment Calculator) would help to keep a student on track with the amount of work they should be doing while also providing a structure to assemble the work by. It could be conceived of as a lot of "hand-holding," I think, in the sense that the student doesn't need to struggle with creating a research model for themselves, but for so many students, the work just has to be done and these tools make for one less thing to worry about and devote attention to. The same goes for the additional teacher's guide items: more nudges, which means possibly less thought devoted to the process.
Now, this isn't to say I wouldn't use these kinds of tools on projects of my own. Now that I know they exist, I just might in the future. And you might be able to use it for library projects: for planning an important presentation to the board, or maybe timing out a complex grant proposal.
I think these are just good tools to have on hand even if you aren't doing any instruction and a student wants to know how to conduct this or that part of their research or how to put this or that kind of a presentation together.
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