Moving tags in PSE 12

I recently upgraded from PSE 11 to PSE 12. In PSE 11, all of my tags were in its Keyword category.  However, the upgrade has placed my (hundreds of) tags relating to places and events into the new Places and new Events categories, where I can't find a way to edit them, to move them or to add new tags.  (My people tags ended up in Keywords and are thus ok).  Adobe tech support offers no solution other than to retag (20,000+) files but I can’t believe that even Adobe would screw me up so badly.  How can I move all of my sub-categories and keywords in PSE 12 into the Keyword category?

Add me to the list.  I have almost 70K in cataloged files.  I've been using Elements since before it was Elements (I forget what it was in the 90's, but at some point they changed the naming convention....)  I've skipped about every other release and just recently was very nicely gifted a copy of 12 for my birthday, and thought I might as well update from 10.
What a mistake....
My tag structure was very well defined, honed over the years to work "the way I wanted it to" - whether that made logical sense to anyone else or not.  In reality, it DOES make logical sense, I have some of the same high level categories as Adobe thinks I should have - People, Places, and Events mainly - but I have other high level categories (like "Work", and "Website Images", for instance...)
I LIKE that structure. I don't want to have to CHANGE that structure simply because Adobe thinks I should.  If Adobe's structure is somehow better than mine, for me, I'm not seeing it.
My wife also uses our catalog, but is not nearly so intimately familiar with why things are the way they are.  All she knows is if she wants a picture of our three daughters together she can click their name tags under People, click five stars to get the best ones, and see a list.
The entire process now is confusing - having a tag list on the right but not being able to use that tag list to select (include or exclude) photos with those tags, is stupid.  Having to click the arrow to the right of the tag name to open up ANOTHER selection method in the top pane, then somehow navigate a confusing structure there, is also stupid.
Even if I wanted to live with that and just "learn it", I then have the same problem others have repeated above - I have tags that were imported and placed properly under the "People/Places/Events" structure, but I also have (for instance) a tag called "Detroit" - which is obviously a place but yet is now under "Imported Keyword Tags" - with no apparent way to move it.
If I could at LEAST move a tag from "imported" into the new structure (to put "Detroit" under Places) that would make it somewhat understandable (although I'd still grumble about being forced to do so by Adobe....) but I CAN'T DO THAT. 
So, now I need to tell my wife (who is from Detroit), "if you want to see pictures that involve trips we've made to a particular place, you can TRY expanding the Places category and see if the place you want is there, but if it's not then go over to the Keywords category, expand all the sub categories there, and just poke around and see if you can find it..."
Guaranteed disaster and confusion.
Adobe. Please.  If you're going to do this, at least implement some method of letting us simply drag a keyword from the Keywords category over to one of your OWN categories, or allow us to remove your own categories from every visible menu or listing and simply use our own.
I do NOT want to have to recreate all my previous tags in your own categories, then go through the laborious process of selecting each one in my own keyword list individually and re-tagging them with YOUR version of the same tag, then having to "remove" my own keyword and save yours.
For 70K images?  NO.
Seems pretty simple.

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