Hi everyone!! As has already been posted here, yes, we did release a solution to this request this week. Info has already been posted, but just in case, here is the support article to check out if you want more info, and it is the Skip Into feature: Player Experience
Having just read through the entire thread, we are aware that there have been multiple ways proposed to implement this. These were part of the working conversation, but at the end of the day, we went with a toggle at the client level which applies across content played on that client.
So first of all, a big thanks to everyone here for the feature request and comments in this thread. As an implementation of this is now released we will leave this request open for a bit for any additional feedback, but we want to free up votes for everyone so it will be closed after the feedback period. If a more granular control or additional client logic to toggle the setting is something you want to see then please feel free to create another suggestion with this called out! 
