I’ve noticed recently that in the hours of darkness, and this might just be coincidence because it’s mornings i use it, that on the M6 West Mids section the hard shoulder has not been a running lane.
This i have found a more comfortable way to travel and i think would possibly be a good compromise, to only allow live left lane running in the hours of daylight.
Course you still get the half wits who are incapable of working out whether its live lane or not 
but Darwinism will probably sift those in due course,
In unlit sections such as M1 16 to 20, it would be quite terrifying to break down, especially in a car where you might have kids strapped into child seats or less able bodied driver/passengers who would otherwise leap out and be out of harms way in seconds, but would instead be stuck there waiting for some bloody parcel wagon on auto pilot to clean them up.