Strange sample rate issue

There are a few others that have had this issue but with no resolution:

The last of these suggests a workaround but I actually don’t understand what they are doing. Maybe continuing with the project (with the incorrect settings) doing the final mix, opening that and resampling it to 48kHz then exporting it as 44.1kHz? This seems like a terrible solution though and I’d much prefer a more robust way of fixing it.