Just wanting to treble-check this ^ You omitted Step 14 - Install modern kernel, libc6, python3, mariadb packages - completely (because of the issues that you've mentioned) and this had no detrimental effect on your Dist-Upgrade right? We're asking, because we're shortly going to run these Dist Upgrades, but, as we've waited until both Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS were released before doing so and having verified their commonalies etc, we are going to omit Step 14, but by choice, because after those ^ OS releases, Step 14
appears to be slightly academic, unlike the rest of
the specific Plesk article.