Lightroom Classic "Metadata has Conflicts" warning in error?

LR has for many years showed spurious Metadata status, including  Has Been Changed, Changed On Disk, and Conflict Detected.  Adobe has shown no interest in correcting this (there may well be multiple bugs). Some options for dealing with spurious conflicts:

- If you're sure that the LR catalog holds "the truth", then select Overwrite. That will write the metadata in the catalog back to the file on disk, and often/usually/sometimes makes the spurious status go away, at least for a while.

- Uncheck the option View > Grid View > Cell Icons > Unsaved Metadata and you won't see the status at all. This like what the old Car Talk Guys used to recommend, taping a piece of black tape over the spurious engine light on your car's dash.

Since downloading LrC 13.3.1 — to my Mac Studio M1 Ultra running Mac OS Sonoma 14.5 — when I go back to edit (or sometimes just click on an HEIC photo and view it) a photo that was added to my catalog when I was using an earlier version of LrC -- all of a sudden now, that image file gets the "Metadata has Conflict" tag and it tells me that "the metadata for this photo has be changed by both Lightroom and another application. And asks, "Should Lightroom import settings from the disk or overwrite disk settings with those from the catalog?" 

This has me flummoxed since I am quite sure that since the file was added to my LrC catalog, it has not been changed by any application other than LrC (albeit an earlier version of LrC). 

So, what is the correct response? Which option should I choose?

Overwrite Settings

Import Settings from Disk

or

*Cancel

*if this is a glitch or a bug that will be sorted with a future update, should I simply choose "Cancel" and wait for the "bug fix" in an update?