The posters did revert overnight after I manually selected the poster in the plex web ui. Logs are attached. For MovieFan’s question, the movie files I’ve been testing this with do not have brackets or braces.
So is there any way to change a poster in the web UI while “thumb” is locked without doing the plex dance ? In the past, if I wanted a different poster after adding a new movie, I’d select the poster in the web UI or the plex dash app and that selected poster would never change unless I selected a different one later on. And it seems some of these recently added movies are immediately getting their posters locked before I select one.