I'm not sure if I'm imagining this but I think I remember the league getting Karl Kirkpatrick to referee a game in the Championship (might have been the Northern Ford Premiership back then) 'to the letter of the law' to see what would happen, and he blew up for penalties every minute. The game wasn't on TV but the story of this experiment was covered in the papers.
It would be an interesting experiment if carried through across Super League. If you have a complete zero tolerance approach to enforcement, at what point do behaviours change and people start complying with the law as they realise there is no alternative?
What you would get at first is coaches still trying to get their teams to push the letter of the law, and then moaning to the media that the ref was "ruining the game", they'd say "we're in the entertainment business....the refs need to recognise its not all about them". But if neither the media nor fans would indulge them in this and said look we'll put up with it being crap for a while till you learn, we might get through to the other side.
I feel like I have had some kind of authoritarian epiphany saying that.