Where should I put new images

Background - I am a long time Elements user on Windows. On disk my images are organized in folders by subject and that cannot change. With Elements I copy the images from a card into a subfolder of My Pictures\New. I then move the images into other folders under My Pictures\New based on subject or on special processing (focus stacking, HDR) that is required before final editing. I then edit with the Elements Editor and when done I move the images to their final directory and import them into Organizer.
In LR this workflow must change since I cannot edit without importing the images into LR. My current thought is to follow the same procedure up to the point where I am ready to edit. At that point I will add the images in a subfolder to LR, edit them, then move the images (or the entire folder) to the final location using the Folders panel in LR. If moving with LR does not work well I can delete the images from LR, move them using Explorer, then add them to LR again.
Does this seem like a reasonable workflow? Any suggestions as to how to do it better in LR? Thanks.

It's hard to see from your description why you are adding Lightroom into this already complicated workflow at all. I don't see the benefit, I just see more workflow complications. You say "LR offers enough advantages..." and then seem to rule out many of the biggest advantages, including simplifying workflow and organizing, and you don't state what advantages you do get from adding Lightroom to the workflow. You also seem to be discounting the cost to you of a more complicated workflow; it has been my experience after years in Lightroom forums, that Lightroom is not "friendly" towards such complicated work-flows, and actually adds additional amounts of work to achieve a complicated workflow over and above the same workflow using your operating system or using Elements.
I never recommended storing photos into a single large folder. You can certainly put them in folders, that's what I do. What I was advising against was thereafter, moving photos from one location to another to represent stages in your workflow, or to use folders to have specific meaning, because Lightroom tools are more suited for that purpose.
Since there is no way to convert a LR catalog to Elements that would mean starting over in Organizer which would be a big job with a sensible folder structure and impossible without it.
I also can't agree with your concern about getting "locked into" Lightroom and then being unable to find your files. Are you aware that you'd also need Lightroom to see your edits? If you are going to protect yourself against a possible future in which Lightroom was not available, you'd also need a step to export all your photos so you could find them and use the edited versions without Lightroom, from a folder somewhere in your organization scheme.
But any metadata can be written to the photos themselves, and used by any other photographic application, so migrating from Lightroom to any other photographic application is indeed possible. Starting over, no, it wouldn't be starting over; it would be more like importing into another photographic application and then using your existing metadata.

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