Describe your enhancement

Related to #1187 - I'm trying to automate building Refined Storage setups, and that requires changing settings on newly placed devices - item filters on inserters/exporters, lock mode on autocrafters, and so on. I looked through the API that RS exposes to other mods and I don't think this is possible.

I'm toying around with implementing the missing functions, but I don't want to overstep and define big new APIs on someone else's mod.

This is not something I want as API.