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I upgrade when it's a distro that releases new versions regularly (for example Fedora with two releases per year). I obviously also upgrade rolling distributions.
Why? Because it's less work and I haven't had many problems with it.
I usually clean install long-term distros like RHEL (or RHEL-based). These don't always have a good upgrade path and I usually only use them on servers.