Looking at the original post again, what I'm reading is that if I have an analysis, with Variable1 mapped to attribute1, and if the user moves attribute1 somewhere else, then the desire is for Variable1 to also change to pick up the new path.
If this is the request, then unfortunately we have no plans to implement that even though we know the unique ID for that attribute. In a typical AF implementation, there are hundreds if not thousands of elements with at least an order magnitude more attributes. We highly suggest users configure their analyses as much as possible using the attributes belonging to the element for ease of management. The use case as described by the original post is pretty rare and as such it's very low in priority for us right now.