Ability to have user-defined property overrides propagate up nested template instances

Currently if I add a template instance into a second parent template, any user-defined overrides on the first child template will get reverted to defaults for any instance of that second parent template that gets defined.
For example, I create a pump equipment template with a pump current analog point and override the high alarm limit on that analog point. I then create a pump station template containing four instances of that pump equipment. If I create an instance of that pump station template, the pump current alarm limit override that I defined on the pump equipment template gets reverted on all four of those pumps in the pump station instance. I have to go into the pump station template and manually set the pump current high alarm limit override on each of the four pump instances.
It would be good to have an option to propagate property overrides up nested template instances, as currently we spend a lot of development time during template development reapplying overrides at each nested template level that contains a particular template instance. I know bulk-edit tool can make this less painful, but it would be good if this was baked in so we wouldn't have to rely on external tools which can risk bricking a database if misused.
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