yea mending can read as a great spell. In older versions it doesn't fix everything though, they may have changed it for 5th ed.
does Repair still exist as a spell? that might be a different game system, but i want to say there were 2 versions of mending
Not going to lie in all of my years of playing/ running (30 now, sadly), I have never had a player use it.
Prestidigitation is an amazing spell though, and one that is seriously OP for its level.
There are a ton of other threads out there on things you can do with the spell