Sadly, neither way meets what I am looking for. Every 2-5 images I am changing the setting, so You Cmd-Opt V still needs to be copied, then pasted. Once again, multiple steps.
AutoSync would have worked, except every other image usually needs a tiny tweak. That means I either need to click to turn it off, and click to turn it on again, or I need to click off the group, then on the single image. Once again, multiple clicks and/or keyboard actions.
Capture One allows for "Copy and Apply to All Selected" with a single keyboard command. If you can imagine, I blast through batches very quickly. Lightroom slows me down with extra "Find the correct button on the other side of the keyboard" sillyness. I paid by job, not by hour, so i want to get through it as quickly as possible without barriers.
For the record, I am doing Tonal and Color changes anyway, so I don't care if cropping or other stuff is selected.