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Syncthing is a very good piece of software, even when working cross-platform. Nextcloud, however, is the biggest and most cumbersome pile of garbage open-source produced in the last decate.
Currently I'm running Syncthing on my NAS and all my devices sync to it (no cross-device sync to avoid issues). Then I've an SMB share to allow access to the files on iOS devices and FileBrowser for a cloud-like web browser access experience. Works flawlessly uses very little RAM and its solid, private, secure and manageable open-source - not something like Nextcloud that calls home, breaks everything on upgrades, wastes ram and runs slowly to only deliver an inferior experience in all possible ways.
Some of my experiences with NC are described in detail at https://lemmy.world/comment/1571886 and https://lemmy.world/comment/346174
Nextcloud is everything other than minimization and stability. I bet if you take a quick look at their repositories you'll find security-wise questionable stuff very fast and also tons of different pieces not a single thing.