Enable filtering in GH LTS evolutions

[wthrowe]

Also clean up duplicated ScalarTensor filtering.

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[geoffrey4444]

@wthrowe you beat me to it! I will close my PR #6018 which duplicates this. Closed yours by accident, reopened, sorry!