“despite the fact that it’s just not necessary”
I think you’d be surprised by how unnecessary looking stuff has a tendency of becoming absolutely necessary on some poorly configured servers.
Else yes, it can be overridden using filters. You’re looking into overriding the stuff in sanitize_file_name(), which is located in wp-includes/formatting.php.
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