You don't need to wait in any immigration queues if you have a e passport which we all do ... You just scan at the gates, why are you waiting in long queues?
Or just buy an evisa and save your passport pages because we are in 2024, also it's not the exchange rate ... They clearly want 1,000 bills only and not 100bahts.
You go to counter, get a passport transfer form and take the copies of old and new passport ... They might ask your embassy to confirm its damaged but not a big deal as you're old passport and visa is on the computer.
If you haven't been abusing the visa excempt system, i,e. you don't have lots of in and outs you can just fly in and out a couple times, they won't bother you (they'll warn you before you get any trouble usually). You can also do 2 land border runs per year, so you're good untill next year at least.