Hello All,
As with most of my questions this one will likely be odd. I’m looking for a wizard that can take a footprint and create the skeleton of a symbol based on the pin/pad names and location on the footprint. I’m lazy so this would really help. If this doesn’t exist, then I’ll write it but nobody will use it since I will do it in perl - S-expression files rock 
Footprints do not have pin name information.
Footprints do not have pin type (input, output, power, etc) information.
Symbols have their pins organized in ways that makes sense in a schematic, and it’s generally not related to the pad order in footprints.
So what other use is left for such a “wizard”?
There are scripts that go the other way. You can copy some data from a datasheet into a spreadsheet, add some more meta data, and then generate a schematic symbol from that. But I have not used those scripts myself.
I do agree that KiCad would benefit from better methods to generate symbols, especially for symbols with many pins such as FPGA’s or big microcontrollers, but I do not believe your proposal would be a very useful method.