Also I want to say from a jamming perspective it might be good to try to simplify things instead of go with realistic. One example is the elevator you could have just teleported the player up or down instantly which would reduce the waiting time, not as realistic but it is kind of nicer in games to just approximate some stuff. And for jamming purposes sometimes it's better to just get a very simple slightly working version before you try to make it nicer with like a moving elevator. If it had windows that let you look down into the area or something that would maybe give a reason for not just teleporting but overall just giving some ideas on that aspect.
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Yes! I 100% know what you mean. To be completely honest I wanted to do that from the start of working on the elevator because of the fact that it would have took so much stress off of me and lightened my workload a lot. But at the same time if I didn't go through the pain of looking up multiple tutorials if I didn't understand something, or having to re-write the script over and over, and also having to test it out every time I made an edit to see if I was making progress, I most likely would not have all the knowledge I ended up gathering over the period of time I was working on it. And don't get me wrong it's not 100% perfect and there is definitely some small to major issues, but at the same time I feel as though it was worth it even though it was a pain to do. Because now I have a lot more know how when it comes to something like an elevator, and with the gathered knowledge I can probably expand on what I've done with the elevator in my game so far and make it even better after the jam is done.