I haven’t tried it, as I don’t have any Alma boxes. I generally tend to recommend doing a migration instead of in-place upgrade, however, as it allows you to test everything on the new platform before flipping the switch of your production sites. Nothing worse than upgrading only to find something is broken and not knowing how to fix it, maybe taking your site(s) or services offline for an uncertain amount of time.
In the past I would also opt to run the latest long-term supported release of a given distro.
But these days I choose just to run the latest packages of additional repos that I really need. Up to date PHP, Mariadb, BIND, postfix - but even that only if I need certain features.
So I think I will ride Alma 9.6 quite a bit longer.
if you REALLY want to upgrade this is what i do. i make a ful config and system backup using the included tools. i then destroy the current instlal and instlal the new os from sratch. then you install virt onto the new install. after that’s done use the backup to restore the system..pretty slick actually.