Replicate SharePoint list to Project list automatically?

I am trying to find ideas/thoughts that will achieve all the following 6 requirements below.
We need to start a series of tasks when a new request form is submitted.
1. The tasks needs to be auto created.
2. The tasks due dates and start dates needs to be auto populated based on certain fields in the input form. The assignment of the task should automatically happen based on the input form.
3. When the task gets assigned or overdue, we need emails to go out.
4. We need to do reporting on the task list and show dependencies.
5. If the dates changes in the input form, we need to slide the dates of all the task.
6. This all needs to happen Online. We do not want to maintain the servers.
Questions:
We are able to do 1,2,3 very well in SharePoint online task list. The problem is in intems #4 and #5.
Reporting and moving the dates of all the task when the project dates slide.
Is there a way have the sharepoint task list replicated to Project Online periodically?
Or can we do items 1,2,3 in Project Server Online?
Would appreciate any pointers.
Thanks
Faye

Shazeb,
Your suggestion is exactly what I am doing right now in code as a workaround. I delete the entire Project Plan using PSI call and queue a new sync.
However, as you can understand, this is clearly a less than desirable solution as any Project specific information would be deleted as well.
I noted the same behavior as you that when an item is deleted, it is not possible to get the sync to work thereafter, even if I add a new task with the same name. My guess is that the underlying sync logic uses the ID of the task in the list so sync
to a task in Project so when the item is deleted in SP, this error occurs at the low level LINQ code.
Seems like a product defect -- would it be possible to get this fixed in a future CU?
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