Steelseries Aerox 3 (2022) Solder Pad Repair

I am a beginner to soldering and have since found out why I messed this up... I was running the iron at like 660C when it should have been closer to 360C, but I also still had the issue of desoldering the mouse switch in general. Seems like no matter how long I held the iron on the pin of the switch, it would not loosen up at all. I made sure the iron was hot enough by melting some solder on it, still could not desolder existing switch. Tried using solder wick, nothing happened because the existing solder connection would not melt/loosen. I had to add fresh solder to the existing solder in order for the iron to be able to loosen the switch at all... After fighting it for a while, got impatient and got the switch off, but took the copper pads off with the existing switch. From what I saw all connector pins had pads, but only the center pin connector has track running to it, would that be the only pin connector I would need to repair? I have already scratched the black coating off the PCB to expose the copper track. I assume I need to purchase thin copper wire and re-establish that track connection on 1 side since I don't see any track being ran on the top of the PCB. Any advice would help, already ordered thin copper wire for this purpose and will post pics of what the board looks like. (I have a Kailh switch I am planning to put in)

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