UPDATE
So I ended up reinstalling both pieces of software, and then I created a new Reality Capture project and followed my workflows that I listed in the original post. The ONLY difference in the parameters/variables that I witnessed was when importing the .las into CloudCompare the global shift values made much more sense.
Previously it was shifting it only ~6m and ~45m along the x,y axis, respecively, which seemed weird to me because I knew normally for my region these are in the 800K m and 300K m.
When I reimported the .obj mesh into RC, it was exactly where it was supposed to be.
I’d like to keep this thread open as I continue forward with a couple more projects in the next few days. I’m going to repeat this workflow and try to identify any “do’s/don’ts” for anyone wanting to explore this.