Yes. About 37000 “originals” and of course 3 times more in the “optimized” directory. In total about 120000.
This I do not understand, what do you mean? The uploads I copied manually to Spaces were identical in name and path placement on Spaces with those on my local disk. I made several tests before the final rebake, that just ended and was fully successful.
I see your point, but then please consider that setting environment variables might have some unwanted consequences and, at least in my experience, required to rebuild the container and broke the UI as I explained here.