Is there a better migration path for MySQL 5.5 -> MySQL 5.6 than the existing recommendation, which is ultimately "Create a new database and port your data over

Is there a better migration path for MySQL 5.5 -> MySQL 5.6 than the existing recommendation, which is ultimately "Create a new database and port your data over"? https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/migrating https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/migrating