Sounds good. However, the ability to take all specializations is a bit over powered. I would make it a trait but limit it to ONE tree only, your choice. Its not really a big deal for me. I play on gifted and by the time,  I get to a tree that has two or more choices I want I will see who has what and research what they do not have. I have almost always been able to get several specializations that I want (mining+1 & logistics +5) or (trade route +1 & +5 happiness) both here are good examples. 

The only issue with your idea on survey automation is range and visibility. Usually by the time you have Survey modules  you should have sensor tech to see a bit further. You cannot survey what you can't see. Setting a Survey to only Defended precursor relics only will give you a ship that stops moving after a few hits.  I think we would need better survey tools for automation.

Another idea is to plead with Stardock to divide up our galaxies into sectors or quadrants and then you can tell a ship to 'Survey all anomalies in Sector 11B'.

Just a thought. 

Eh, maybe.  Just thinking about how to do it though makes me break out in hives. 

The main problem, as far as I know, is how the base game treats any tech that is tagged as a Specialization.  As it currently stands, again as far as I know, a tech is a specialization or it isn't.  If it is a specialization, it is subjected to certain rules that I don't think are modifiable by us lowly peons.  

I'm not entierly sure what triggers one can put on a tech to make it researchable outside of techs themselves.  If it is possible to play with that, it might be possible to set up some ridiculous branches that might do this sort of thing.

I suppose looking at Ave's DeSpecify might help a little, but there were a some issues with it in regards to trading techs, IIRC.  I never really did come close to understanding exactly what he did there, which is why I went in an entierly different direction for my Generalized Tech mod. 

about survey  - add checkbox - avoid/explore wormholes

May be it would also be a good thing to display guarded anomalies in different colors. For example the guarded anomalies in dark red, and the precursors anomalies in purple (the same color than the precursors planets).