Do you have another disk/ssd you can backup your Win10 install to? Then you can do the Win11 upgrade and if it fails, restore the backup and just carry on till 2025. Maybe at some point MS will relax requirements just a tad. Just my 2 cents.
Personally, I don’t intend to upgrade for at least 6 months. There’s probably a ton of bug fixing that’s still yet to be done. I've toyed around with it in a VM, nothing in 11 that makes me eager to move.
I'll probably do a clean install on some of my Sandy Bridge laptops with the full registry keys to bypass the various checking at some point.
Very hesitant to do it on the newer systems like the i7 7700 that, frankly, I use daily and that run reliably - it's a lot of work setting up a clean Windows install on a heavily-used desktop and, unless something earth shattering happens, we know that install is going to be SOL at the next feature update in 6 months at the latest.
I did upgrade a very lousy el-cheapo i5 8xxx laptop to it on Friday. My first time running it on bare metal. And my view is, it feels like another Windows feature upgrade, not a major OS upgrade like in the old days. Everything, including things like AV software that's usually finicky about OSes, is still there and seems just as happy as under 21H1.
Frankly, I've half come around to the idea that if the 12-gen Intels turn out to be good, I might just take my RTX 3070 out of the 7700 and build a new system. I don't love the idea and wouldn't even be considering it if it wasn't for this BS but... if the 12-gen CPUs are good and 64+ gigs of DDR5 aren't completely insanely bankrupting, I may consider it.
(And I have a NAS with 12TB free and a stack of external hard drives in a drawer, although I do need more modern backup/imaging software first.)