How do you deal with the short lifespan until EOL? I've been using Rocky (and CentOS before that) simply to avoid dealing with EOL so often.

Fedora makes major upgrades pretty easy - you can even do it via the GUI Software Center, then reboot.

Personally I'm using Kinoite[1], an "immutable" version of Fedora that has an immutable base image, which makes it nearly impossible to break things during updates (even major upgrades).

[1] - https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/