Can I override app/views/layouts/application.html.erb from a plugin?

Sorry to resurrect this very old topic, hope it is OK.

Can we override (in a plugin)?

app/views/layouts/application.html.erb

Like this:

register_asset '../views/layouts/application.html.erb'

I suspect the answer is “NO!”… if “no” (because ‘assets’ are not ‘views’ in Rails, so can we have a future plugin method:

register_view

So we can simply do this in the future (for example):

register_asset 'layouts/application.html.erb'

and override 'layouts/application.html.erb

This seems like a good idea to me, not being a Discourse plugin expert by any stretch of the imagination.

Thanks for your consideration.