I'm slightly confused. I read through the entire list carefully, and there are multiple downsides for the changes. The only potential benefit is that files can

I'm slightly confused. I read through the entire list carefully, and there are multiple downsides for the changes. The only potential benefit is that files can "pretend" to be there, and be automatically fetched over the network when needed, which is something that I would consider a downside, as I'd much rather have a full copy of my entire tree locally, so that I'm certain it's there when I'm offline. So why do it at all? Why not drop the feature of "pretend you're there" and just continue like before? The downsides seem massive to me. Also, is there something that prevents me from just running Maestral and having access to my dropbox stuff just like before? These days most of my important stuff gets synchronized using syncthing. It's much more performant, became extremely reliable over the years, doesn't hog my CPU like crazy, and doesn't show upsell banners and prompts. I would have dropped Dropbox a long time ago if it wasn't for synchronizing my PDF collection with PDF Reader on my iPad.