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I avoid reinstalls as well and one of my systems hasn't had a reinstall since Fedora Core 4. This system actually started on Red Hat Linux 8 (the precursor to Fedora, not RHEL). It was upgraded to RH9, then FC1, etc., but I had to reinstall once (I think disk failed during upgrade). I have been able to rescue other upgrades that failed.

I have upgraded literally every component multiple times so it's a Ship of Theseus.

I'm on Fedora 36 laptop that started from Fedora 25, and at some point in the middle I moved from Dell XPS to LG Gram.

To migrate machines I didn't use rsync, used dd instead.

Zero upgrade issues, however I generally wait 2-3 months after release before upgrading.

I get the best of both world. I run Fedora Silverblue, and develop inside an Arch Linux container toolbox. I get the stability and user friendliness of Fedora, an immutable system w/ Silverblue and AUR and all the Arch goodies to develop with.

This is the best workstation setup I've ever had, there's no comparison.

I use Fedora as a VM for development on other systems. I just love the stable and smooth experience.