That would be fine with me. I just find myself continually going to units that have automove set and manually moving them anyway which defeats the purpose. Once this becomes a lot of units it is very tedious which means I'll start getting lazy and then having out of date information. That's why I like having the movement happen upfront, I simply don't use automove in areas where I feel I need to be careful. Automove should also be smart enough to stop the automove if a unit is detected which helps. I'm not sure if Elemental does that or not.
The question still remains though, is this something that we could add in ourselves somehow or would this require a developer? I don't really care how it's accomplished, I just hope it's possible somehow. I love how moddable this game and see myself playing a lot of mods in the future. It would just be very unfortunate if I had to fight this one feature that drives me up a wall for all of them.