

It plays to his anti-intellectual base: “See? We are finally pw0ning those effete libs and putting the money into the trades.”
(You know you could put a lot of people through trade school for the cost of one big military parade, and not have to give up f’ing cancer research)
I’d echo this. Syncthing is widely used because it Just Works in so many weird situations. So if it is Not Working, swapping out Syncthing might actually make the problem harder to solve.