Pontius,
ATC play the game all the time.
I have been on approach in LA where they gave the preceeding aircraft the vis and cleared them to land to which they responded that they needed something better than reported otherwise they were off to vegas, ATC came right back with a revised vis that was what they needed.
Similarly in Sydney doing night freight in a jet atc queried the max downwind we could accept. As we approached the departure intersection, the downwind was exactly the max we could accept. A coincidence possibly but convenient nonetheless. Have had the same situation occur in LA at night on departure in relation to the downwind.