Similar to Mastodon's spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source
Not by a long shot. Connect is good, don't get me wrong, but Sync has some major points that others usually just completely gloss over or ignore entirely--including Connect.
Like tablet-friendly UI.
And no, Infinity, "tablet-friendly" does not mean like 5 columns of independently scrolling content which take you to one big comment section which is a mobile UI stretched to screen size.
Tablet UI--let alone good, productive tablet UI like Sync has with pagination and all--is always overlooked.