Clicking Next on webpage with Selenium/Python

Question

I'm trying to use Selenium to click Next on https://www.theitdepot.com/products-Motherboards_C13.html

The relevant HTML code is:

<li class="page-item mx-1">
<a class="page-link rounded-pill border-0 bg-transparent text-yellow category_page_class" href="#" id="2">Next →</a>
</li>

So far, I have tried two ways of clicking Next unsuccessfully:

1. Using .click()

   from selenium import webdriver
   from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
   from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
   
   URL = "https://www.theitdepot.com/products-Motherboards_C13.html"
   
   options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
   options.add_argument('--headless')
   options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
   options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
   wd = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install(), options=options)
   wd.get(URL)
   
   next = wd.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value="//*[contains(text(), 'Next →')]") 
   next.click() 
   time.sleep(10)
   

2. Using execute_script

   next = wd.find_element(by=By.XPATH, value="//*[contains(text(), 'Next →')]") 
   wd.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", next) 
   

In both cases, while I do not get any error, the Next button does not actually get clicked, and the rest of my code loops just execute over the same information as on Page 1.

Is there anything obvious I'm missing, or any other ways to click the Next button that would work on this webpage?