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Just read about `deleteBeforeReplace` and I'm wondering if that would have let me update the base path mapping (<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#deletebeforereplace>)

Yes - this is exactly the use case for `deleteBeforeReplace`.