Let panels send keyboard shortcuts to Premiere

I was thinking about a lot of the Panel/Extendscript feature requests on this forum and my own feature wishlist and it occurred to me that so many of the features that I and others would like to see are ones that are easily accomplished by already existing keyboard shortcuts.

As the Panel API continues to grow, it could be a very effective stopgap measure to allow panels to send keypresses to Premiere (or, even better, menu commands?!). This would allow panels to essentially create keyboard macros and unlock a massive set of heretofore unavailable features. This is obviously not a long term solution to solving the API limitations, but as a way of unlocking features in the interim, it could be very effective.

On the down side, it would require users to have certain shortcuts mapped in predefined ways, but if a panel is providing an essential feature to a user, this seems like a small price to pay and the panel could either prompt the user for how some shortcuts are mapped, or ask the user to map evrything important important to obscure combinations (or maybe there could be an API to read keyboard mappings?).

Thanks,

David