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Ignoring the fact that the "communal poop tablet" is probably not all the terribly common, why on earth would you rely on In-App-User-Profiles for that instead of Android User Profiles?
That might have been fine with one or two Reddit alt-accounts, but Lemmy is an entirely different beast. I feel like I'm instance-hopping almost daily for one reason or another and I'm rapidly amassing new accounts. Given how aggressively some instances defederate (I'm looking at you, Beehaw), there's little choice if you want to experience most of what Lemmy has to offer.
Suddenly, keeping all settings on these accounts in sync becomes a rather tedious and arduous task, which requires repetition every time one chooses to change their settings.
Compared to that, the edge cases where it may actually be useful behavior are ridiculously small. So, having this as the default and only behavior is simply bad design.
Like I said, it may not meet your preferences
Like I said, this isn't about personal preference, this is about general preference.
You can't tell me that "people with different eyesight, and who inexplicably don't want to use Android user profiles, sharing a poop tablet" is a larger subset of users than those who just want (and reasonably expect) the damn font size to stay the same when they switch Lemmy accounts. Right now, the app exclusively caters to the first group and doesn't even give the second group an option.
Neither can you tell the opposite without doing a serious research. Did you?
I'll start my extensive poop tablet research as soon as my grant has been funded.
Again, like I said, the way it is now allows you to load in your settings exactly the same for every account. You just don't like how it does it.
Be as pissed as you want, but that's how it is. If that's a dealbreaker for you, oh well. I wasn't aware this post was just a rant. If I had, I wouldn't have bothered you. You asked a question in your title, I attempted to answer that. I'm not here to argue.
Edit: and don't forget, sync is not a brand new app. The reddit version was one of the most popular, most used apps on Android for reddit. Go look at the original subreddit. The settings features as they are now were used by all of those people, happily. Don't conflate your personal opinion as automatically being what is generally desired by a very long history of huge amounts of users.