Many conic reformulation tricks have been used in this forum as well as presented in the Mosek Modeling Cookbook. if the optimization modeling system tools were smarter, the user could be “less disciplined”, and in many cases still be able to successfully use conic optimization solvers.
Perhaps someone could incorporate these reformulations into a next generation of CVX or CVXPY like tool, which would make use of symbolic processing, along the lines of computer algebra tools such as Maple, Mathematica, and SymPy, which if done well enough, could actually come up with some formulations beyond the capabilities of even the most clever people on this forum. This new tool could incorporate heavy duty computer algebra type technology as part of its arsenal. On the flip side, such a system might be able to prove non-convexity in many instances.
The easiest step would be to create additional higher level functions, augmenting those currently in CVX or CVXPY, but still placing the burden on the user to recognize the need for and applicability of these functions. But I believe a tool could be developed which would automatically detect and recognize many structures, alone or in combination, and reformulate accordingly. With heavy duty “computer algebra” under the hood, these abilities could exceed humans in many cases.