Hi
You are right that this is possible but this will be misuse of resources. I have also done this and created somehow similar functionality by going reverse in pricing analysis.
I have seen two types of companies. Let me tell you this with my personal experience.
May be it'll look weird to you but there are some companies which have best SAP teams with in-house ABAPER or ABAPERs. They create every report or application in SAP and their end users are not that trained and they are just data entry operators. They can just execute reports and they need ready made things.
Other companies have different approach. They don't have big in-house SAP teams and they hire only one technical and one or two functional guys. Their end users are well trained and they can make query reports or get dumps from DB tables from SAP team and make reports in excel and analyze it.
For former these kind of requirements are normal thing and they would ask ABAPER to take his time and develop this kind of report. For latter they would not pay high cost to some ABAPER or third party company for these kind of reports and they will use SE16N technique.
Now it depends what kind of client OP has and how he can handle it. Hope you understand what I wanted to explain. Thank you for sharing your views.
Thank$