Automating sychronization based on filename

This issue was already posted in the forum and I have been asked to send a feature request.
Hello,
I shot using RAW+JPEG and I import both in Lightroom. During the importation I rename my file so both RAW and JPEG have the same unique name. I develop my RAW in LR but I would like to automate a few things regarding the linked JPEG:
automate the staking of the RAW and JPEG and put the RAW in the 1st place of the stack. I know there is an auto-stack feature using some time lag (in my case I can put 1 second) but unfortunateley the auto-stack is not based on the filename (regardless of the extension it's the same filename...) and usually puts my JPEG in the 1st place.
Usually I crop my RAW file. I would like to automate the cropping on the linked JPEG file. Auto-sync might be the correct answer but I have a huge number of pictures and I cannot select each time the RAW and JPEG and auto-sync. So what I would like is some auto-sync using again the filename as a selection input.
I general, it's too bad that LR does not consider the JPEG as linked to the RAW. If we take RAW+JPEG it's because the JPEG has all the camera settings (colors, optimization of high or low light, etc.) and it can be a great help when you want in LR develop you RAW has if it was from your camera processing...
Bye.

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