While there may be a way to upgrade, general consensus is that it’s not possible and you should reinstall.

If you’re somewhat tech savvy, don’t have anything against the high seas and absolutely need Windows, look into Windows 10 LTSC.

This is not Apple Pay for customers we are talking about. This is a feature for merchants so they can receive money on their iPhone from customers without requiring extra hardware like a card reader.

Probably because there is absolutely nothing new to announce except the upgraded processor and support for the Apple Pencil Pro.

What forced obsolescence are you talking about? The mini 2 is an 11 year old device that received feature updates for 6 years and security updates for 10 years. Seems fair to me and is probably more than most Android tablets would give you.

it doesn’t even host it’s own repos

Yes, and that’s a good thing, otherwise it would be like Manjaro.

EndeavourOS is perfect if you already know your way around a Linux system but don’t want to spend the time and effort to setup Arch.