Required Supercedence for Available apps on Company Portal

We have a plethora of applications that we don't necessarily need nor want to be required installs for devices but rather installed manually on an as-needed basis. The problem with these applications is that as updated versions of the application are added to Intune via PMPC, the devices that previously installed them manually will not automatically install the updated version via Intune nor Company Portal. In fact, if you install the updated version, the device does not see it as an opportunity for Supercedence to keep user files and such. I understand this may be a limitation on Microsoft's end, but one suggestion would be for PatchMyPC to create Entra Groups for each of these applications (using a naming convention provided by us, the admins) so that when devices successfully install, they will be added to these groups, and then when a future update of the application rolls out, they are now REQUIRED to install the update, and it will happen automatically.