If it tried and failed repeatedly, then it was prompting DALL-E, looking at the results, then prompting DALL-E again, not doing direct image generation.
No... OpenAI said it was "rolling out". Not that it was "already rolled out to all users and all servers". Some people have access already, some people don't. Even people who have access don't have it consistently, since it seems to depend on which server processes your request.