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The e rror explains what you need to do:
Install the mysqli package for your OS. It’s probably “mysqlnd-something” or “php-mysqlnd-something”.
Fixed.
My issue in particular was that I had upgraded Ubuntu in place instead of migrating to a new droplet (I use DigitalOcean). As a result, even though PHP was upgraded to 8.2, I was still using PHP 7.2 and that was causing the MySQLi extension conflict. Such a simple mistake but easy to overlook.
For Ubuntu users, just enabling PHP 8.2 with sudo a2enmod php8.2 (or whatever PHP version you are using, preferably above 7) should fix it.