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[coarse crane]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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[solemn talon]

Yes that is correct.
It avoids collisions when the object of the lexical verb is itself a pronoun, as in "Je le lui fais faire" "I make him do it"

I'm not sure when or how it arose, but it's cool having a form of ergativity in the language

[granite summit]

Aren't le and lui interchangeable in colloquial speech in that situation with faire ?

Using either in either situation sounds okay to me

[spiral rapids]

Here's the article: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/faire-causative/