Probably you are talking about methods, something like repacking assets... No, i think it won't work.
If it is necessary to interfere with ready-made cassettes, there is no alternative.
Modding for 7dtd now supports many opportunity, but they may not be enough for some special tasks.
Unfortunately, only the asset editing utility can do this.
(even in order to make a link(shift) from one asset to another, we need an asset editing utility)
Perhaps the functionality that UABE has left will help us in something.
But i haven't edited the new version yet, and i can't clarify anything about it.