Can I retain stroke weight when applying brush?

A path automatically goes basic(1) weight when any brush is applied to it. Is there any way to avoid this?

I want to do some perspective-ish illust using scatter brush(which I use for randomness), like lights of cityscape at night or audiences in music concert(larger in the front, smaller in the rear). If it didn't reset weight to 1, I could've easily used transform effect or blend to make cascading paths. But, to acheive what I want, I have to apply scatter brush first, then adjust each path's weight at a time.

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