Title kinda say it all.
I did a cursory search and unless I'm looking over something it doesn't seem to actually exist yet, nor has it been suggested. If I'm missing something I apologize, but ya... this is a must-have for every industrialist/builder.
We need an option to "apply" our current skills (overwriting only those stats that are actually improvements) that doesn't require us to pick up, drop, and relink every machine, container, and object we own each time a talent finishes.