This is in essence what Vajrayana buddhism uses as its locus. Instead of seeking to destroy desires, as early Buddhist traditions do by working on breaking them

This is in essence what Vajrayana buddhism uses as its locus. Instead of seeking to destroy desires, as early Buddhist traditions do by working on breaking them apart and inspecting them, reductio ad absurdum, they seek instead to reshape desire to become a vehicle itself to enlightenment. There are intense and lengthy practices which aim to slowly shift the way the practitioner thinks and perceives, to be more aligned with an 'enlightened' perspective, and therefore shift into that modality, and eventually have insight.