Fix it! It is a no brainer. At 212K, your car is just a baby.
I have had to weld the hinge of the front pax door twice already when cracks appeared. I did my latest weld in 2020 and even had the check straps replaced - ordered them new from ebay. The weld was around $300 with some extra stuff done by the panel shop.
The previous weld was done in 2016 and the crack reappeared because the car was driven off road over a long distance in conditions that many other cars would have had their doors and wheels fall off.
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