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Installing EndeavourOS, should I use btrfs or ext4?
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Noted. But then why does Fedora ship with btrfs then, given that they are catering to a mainstream audience?
Because Fedora likes to adapt the newest stuff very early. While it's not like "very early" for BTRFS anymore, its still exceptional unusual to have it as the default in a mainstream distribution. And they want to benefit from the feature set of BTRFS, so it makes sense to use it as the default. Why shouldn't the mainstream benefit from quick snapshots and backups? I don't see the argument "are catering to mainstream audience" as to not use BTRFS?
Btrfs has a bunch of features and is one of the contenders for the "next" filesystem. Ext4 is utterly bulletproof though and has good enough perf so it's still your best bet unless you specifically want to use the advanced btrfs features.