I agree, adding all datums into the properties of the link is a good idea.
But I echo your concern about this idea, how far should it go? While you can use filters and prebuilt links in your view templates, we all know that will become complicated especially when any links gets added later in the process. Multiple View Templates need to be updated and all it takes is one miss and the documents suffer.
But I would propose like in V/G, where a link behaves by host view settings or be overridden by view, this idea would leverage the link's type property default's (turning grids, levels, reference planes off), but add settings at the view level to control those link properties (and add to view templates if necessary), and do away with filters for this type of control.