File linking in photoshop + Auto update links through all applications

At work (graphic and sign studio) we use mostly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign all together for one project, with linked files from and to these applications.
For example: making a car lettering.
I start with a vector logo in Illustrator -> save as AI
I place this one into Photoshop to apply an effect that's not possible in Illustrator -> save as PSD
This PSD is placed in an Illustrator car outline file -> save as AI
The car design AI is imported in Photoshop again to make a "realistic" picture of the car onto a background -> save as PSD
I place the PSD in an InDesign file, add some text to it and export a proof PDF te send to the customer. -> INDD + PDF
That's just an example offcourse of how we link to and from the 3 apps.
Now if the customer asks to alter the logo just a bit and asks for a new proof, i have to (afaik) manually open each file one at a time, update the links and save/export the updated file. The stuff in Photoshop even has to be REplaced since placed files can't maintain the link to the original file.
1. Is there no way to have linked files in Photoshop just like it works in Illustrator and InDesign? (can't be that hard with smart objects, right?)
2. Is it possible to give a command in the last file (the INDD in my case) to update all links back to the first file?
Thanks!

1. Is there no way to have linked files in Photoshop just like it works in Illustrator and InDesign? (can't be that hard with smart objects, right?)
What makes you think it would be easy?
Anyway, Photoshop is an image editing program, not a page layout program … but if you miss that feature you might lend your support to the appropriate feature requests in the Feature Request Forum.
2. Is it possible to give a command in the last file (the INDD in my case) to update all links back to the first file?
It would probably be possible to create a JavaScript that, via BridgeTalk, tries to open all linked Files in an Indesign-File in their creator application and update changed Links in Illustrator and Indesign.
But I suspect that would be a fairly complicated endeavor; on the other hand someone might already have attempted that, so maybe you should ask in the Indesign Scripting Forum.

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