To answer your original question:
1. Settings -> Miscellaneous
2. Store uploads in this folder = “images”
3. Clear the “Full URL path to files” field
4. Uncheck the “Organize my uploads into month- and year- based folders”
5. Save Changes
When you upload a new image, it will create the “images” file if it doesn’t already exist and upload an image to https://domain/images/imagename.jpg instead of https://domain/wp-content/uploads/{year}/{month}/imagename.jpg
If WP is NOT installed in the root directory (ie: https://domain/wp), but you want to upload images to a directory in the root directory (ie: https://domain/images), then you need to specify a PARENT directory:
1. Settings -> Miscellaneous
2. Store uploads in this folder – “../images”
3. Clear the “Full URL path to files” field
4. Uncheck the “Organize my uploads into month- and year- based folders”
5. Save Changes
Again, WP will create the “images” directory for you, and images will be uploaded to https://domain/images/imagename.jpg instead of https://domain/wp/wp-content/uploads/imagename.jpg