Is it possible to tell yarn that a repository has moved to a different location? - yarnpkg

Question

I'm working on a web project that uses yarn. However, yarn install --verbose fails with
$ yarn install --verbose
yarn install v1.22.19
...
verbose 20.124766053 Performing "HEAD" request to "https://github.com/substack/esprima".
verbose 20.613087871 Request "https://github.com/substack/esprima" finished with status code 404.
verbose 21.844854143 Error: Command failed.
Exit code: 128
Command: git
Arguments: ls-remote --tags --heads ssh://git#github.com/substack/esprima.git
Directory: /home/user/git/REDACTED/browser
Output:
ERROR: Repository not found.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
at ProcessTermError.ExtendableBuiltin (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn/lib/cli.js:721:66)
at ProcessTermError.MessageError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn/lib/cli.js:750:123)
at new ProcessTermError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn/lib/cli.js:790:113)
at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn/lib/cli.js:25787:17)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:314:20)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1022:16)
at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:444:11)
at Socket.emit (events.js:314:20)
at Pipe.<anonymous> (net.js:676:12)
error Command failed.
Exit code: 128
Command: git
Arguments: ls-remote --tags --heads ssh://git#github.com/substack/esprima.git
Directory: /home/user/git/REDACTED/browser
Output:
ERROR: Repository not found.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.
From what I can tell, yarn fails because the repo for the (indirect) dependency esprima has been removed. I'm guessing that https://github.com/jquery/esprima is the new location. The proper solution here is probably to update relevant dependencies but as this project hasn't been maintained in a few years it's really not something I want to do...
Therefore I wonder, is possible to tell yarn to use the new location without updating the dependencies?
I tried to redirect the git request with an insteadOf config which fixed the git error above but in the end it didn't fool yarn.