Illustrator won't automatically link assets from company repository

I work at a company where we share our files through a server. We want to be able to open the .ai files and for Illustrator to be able to look up for the files (which should have the same path as the author of the project's) by itself.

Adobe After Effects already does this. Whenever one syncs a project and opens it, After Effects will take its time to pull every asset from the repository and then open with everything linked.

Why can't Illustrator work the same way? Because as it is, we are forced to either disrupt our workflow by having to manually link the files everytime we have to work on a colleague's project, or have to embed the assets, which is not ideal since a lot of times we use layered photoshop .psd and embeding them converts them into a flatten image.