Me too, and the new one I didn’t even realize this change happened. I saw there were no breaking changes, updated, and saw “oh, it isn’t synced anymore” so I reselected the folders, it ran a sync check on everything, which took a while, and everything works fine again.
I didn’t even realize there was a difference until now, but I guess there is a start/stop sync switch.
No crashing, but my performance (and a few friends with the same system on windows) with a ryzen 3600X and 5700XT has dipped from a solid 70-90 on medium-high to max 40, avg 30, and 20fps on the ship where I got 90 originally with no graphics setting changes.
Since the illuminate have been released, literally every major update has reduced performance by at least 5%. It is night and day difference in performance so much so that one of my friends on windows refused to play it until he upgraded his system…