That makes sense I wasn’t even thinking about it moving the OS over.
Starting a new droplet would be my last choice too as I’ve never moved droplets before (this is the first one I have) nor have I ever upgraded the OS before, but all the guides I see here pretty much across the board seem to recommend doing it that way vs. just upgrading the droplet you’re on so I figured might as well go with the majority if both ways have risks and I’ve done neither.
My thinking is also if the upgrade totally botches somehow now you have the downtime from attempted, you have the downtime while you’re forced to try and fix it (or give up and make a new one), vs the new one potentially not working while your original remains running and intact. I don’t know why it would botch but searching meta here has A LOT of people saying it botched, or leads saying they’d never recommend that way (plus the official guides here and digitalocean suggest it).