Yes, you are.
No, it’s very relevant.
“If you would have asked Reb Moshe your Shaila if you could ask a Goy to turn on your crockpot, he would have answered NO!”
Well I think, if he was here -this is what he’d answer:
I personally wouldn’t tell the goy to turn it on, but many have been Maikil like the Rema in cases of Tzorech Godol to do Ameira L’acum!