I recommend doing in-place upgrades if the system itself is SOLID and does not have any issues.
https://www.ajtek.ca/wsus/another-successful-in-place-upgrade-why-not-change-how-you-think/
I've upgraded 2012>2012R2>2019>2022 all in-place and 99% have been without issue each time. The 1 system that had an issue - I used setupdiag to tell me what was going wrong - ended up being a Windows Feature for RRAS management (not the services, the GUI Management), so I removed it, in-place upgraded, and then added it back in.