Overwriting edited JPGs, bypassing "file already exists at the destination"

Hello, I'll give a bit of backstory, explain my dilemma, and describe the fix I'm attempting—but can’t seem to figure out.

I set up an ingest/export folder structure for shooting. I’d been using Lightroom Mobile for about 2.5 years, but I was getting annoyed with (1) the speed of the software, (2) the lack of robust features, (3) the cloud storage space being eaten up, and (4) the inability to delete rejects from local storage.

So I started using Lightroom Classic, and it solved my qualms with LrM. But unfortunately, about 3.5k images were already in Mobile, many of them edited. I spent weeks trying to figure out how to best move the edits to Classic—into the same 'ingest' folders—while maintaining the edits and knowing which were flagged to keep and which to delete. I went through discussion after discussion and found there was no smart, easy way, so I brute-forced it. I set up empty folders on my local drive and manually copied over the ~3.5k images from the synced 'Collections' folder. So now, everything is finally off the cloud and on local storage.

Now here’s where the fun begins. I have a bunch of folders from each shooting event with the RAW+JPG, flagged, unflagged, and rejected—about 100 folders or so. I want to move the edited JPGs that were copied from the cloud (Lightroom Mobile) into the original ingest folders. However, when I try to do so, I get the good ol' “file already exists at the destination” warning. I want to be able to overwrite those JPGs if possible, but I don’t think that option exists.

What I’ve tried as a workaround is deleting the unedited JPG from the 'ingest' folder and then moving the edited JPG over. That somewhat works but requires manually going through File Explorer and deleting… which I’m really not looking forward to doing 3,500 times. And it also causes another issue: LrC no longer treats the copied file as it would on ingest—stacking the RAW & JPG for a single view. Copying, then removing the folder and re-importing, deletes the edit.

Is there a way to overwrite JPGs and bypass the “file already exists at the destination” warning?

I don’t want to manually 'delete in Explorer + copy in LrC', nor do I want to manually 'copy develop settings.'

Any help is appreciated. I’ll attach some images as reference