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I've not tried it but this should be possible with Process Builder/Flow (on the child objects). Those do especially support cross-object formulas while workflow field updates don't.
Reparenting on an intermediate level may still require some sophistication (e.g. in a hierarchy Level_0__c <-- Level_1__c <-- Level_2__c, if you have a lookup from ...
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