How can I organize comments by like count in WordPress?

I am using the "Comments Like Dislike" Plugin in WordPress so my users can like other user's comments. This works fine but I am trying to create an addon plugin that will organize the comments by like count. I have been able to reorganize the comments in this way but the issue I am running in to is that users are no longer able to reply to comments because of this change. The like count is stored in wp_commentmeta like below.

My function selects and orders this table by meta value then retrieves the comment ID of each comment. It then uses this array of IDs to organize my comments.

<?php
function like_filter_comments( $comments ) {
    return like_organize_comments( $comments );
    //return $commentsbylike;
}
add_filter ('comments_array', 'like_filter_comments');


//organize comments so that most liked comments appear first
function like_organize_comments($unorganizedComments){
    global $wpdb;
    //$allComments = get_comments();
    
$user_id = 1;

$wpdb_prefix = $wpdb->prefix;
$wpdb_comment = $wpdb_prefix . 'comments';
$wpdb_commentmeta = $wpdb_prefix.'commentmeta';
$meta_commentlike = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM $wpdb_commentmeta WHERE meta_key = 'cld_like_count' ORDER BY meta_value DESC;");

$i=0;
foreach($meta_commentlike as $key => $value){
    //print_r( $key);
    $metav =  $value->meta_value;
    $comment = $value->comment_id;

$arr[$i++] =  $comment; //comment_id listed in order by likes

}
    
$commentlike = $wpdb->get_results("
SELECT *
FROM $wpdb_comment
WHERE comment_parent
IN (0)

;");

var_dump($commentlike);
    
return $arr;
    
}

The function above does successfully organize the comments by like count but it removes the ability to reply to comments. I made an attempt to only select comments with no parent but I am having difficulties because comment_parent is in the wp_comment table and the like count meta value is in the wp_commentmeta table. I've looked into joining the tables together but haven't found any similar columns to merge.