+1 It would make my life easier as well. I wanted to shoot an HDR panorama and had some 20 perspectives with 5 exposures each. And manually first merge all exposures to HDR and then do the panorama was quite a massive time sink.
It would be really great if I could point HDR merge to a folder and it would figure out the matching fotos itself and merge them to HDR with a preset I define. This would safe a ton of work and a lot of manual mouse clicking.
I just tried Aurora HDR 2017 demo and it does exactly that. But the HDR result is not better and it feels sluggish to make adjustments, I like Affinity Photo a lot better. It's not worth the $99 price tag for me. But the batch HDR merge is really nice and handy. (see below)