Thanks for sharing this feedback with us @John_MacPherson; I don’t believe this is in our near term plans, but this is super interesting and definitely something we could look into in the future!
Todoist has a killer feature here where it parses the due date, project (indicated by #) and tags (@) from the task title. The difficulty and time taken for task creation in Asana is my biggest pain point.
EDIT: Sad to hear this is not on the roadmap. Hope others will pile in and share how much we value this.