Some of us are working on a related package, skrub (
https://skrub-data.org), which is more focused to on heterogeneous dataframes. It does not currently have something that would help you much, but we are heavily brain-storming a variety of APIs to do flexible transformations of dataframes, including easily doing what you want. The challenge is to address the variety of cases.
Those are the storms we want. I'd love to know if/how/which ML tools are helping with that work, if appropriate here.