I don’t think saying please or thank you has any correlation, what you’re suggesting is “asking it if it can.”
Again, not in the text quoted, but I do appreciate that it’s at least not blatantly opposite of what’s going on this time 
I totally agree with you on the need to be direct though, you have to make sure you’re not convoluting the request with politeness.
At the end of the day its not sentient, it doesn’t “know” or “care” about your request, there is no “it”, so while its good to practice gratitude and being polite, don’t let it get in the way of getting your tasks done because that’s the entire purpose.
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