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I don't see where you've found that is was released in 2021. All I could find was a announcement in 2022, and a release date marked as "Q2 2023" on a third party websites.
That would align with the announced 5 years of support from Qualcomm and an upstream end of support set to 2028.
https://chipguider.com/?cpu=qualcomm-qcm6490
https://gadgetversus.com/processor/qualcomm-qcm6490-specs/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/fairphone-5-sets-a-new-standard-with-8-10-years-of-android-support/
It's moot anyway, 2028 is the timeline referenced in this article citing FairPhone.
The Qualcomm product brief is copyright 2021. https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets/documents/qcs-qcm6490-soc-product-brief_87-28733-1-b.pdf
Copyright may have been opposed on this document early during development. But anyway, in both case end of support is 2028, which is better than the usual 2-3 years of support for mainline chips.