Imbuing skills into Items - New Crafting Mechanic?

I'm playing a very interesting off-meta build using Chaos Bolt, but it's unfortunate that I'm limited to using a specific weapon to use its skill, or else relying on some extremely specific and difficult drop to obtain the skill at level 20.

I believe that if we had a way to "extract" the weapon's skill to use it as if it were a skill gem, or even imbue weapons with skills (respecting the equivalent skill level the item would receive, making it require the same skill level in addition to its own requirements), we would have much more flexibility and possibilities for diverse builds in the game.