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Sir, I humbly submit that these choices are still making people with throughput constraints into second-class citizens. You are saying that in order to have a computer that is operational enough to _remain employed_, we have to Google a workaround? Even if you believe that your reasons for not having upstream-throughput-sensitive settings be the default are rational (and I would strongly disagree; storage is WAY cheaper than throughput for the majority of people on our planet)...what possible rational can you have for not just having the option to behave in an upstream-throughput-sensitive manner as a clearly marked option in the OneDrive UI?
I am not an edge case, sir. I should not have to implement an undocumented workaround just to be able to use this product. And I ESPECIALLY should not have this product choose to render my computer basically inoperable after an update.
Please reconsider your approach, and AT THE VERY LEAST return the ability to behave in the classic fashion as a prominent, easily understandable UI addition. I do not believe this is an unreasonable ask.
the sad thing is, they clearly believe in the righteousness of their decision. They're even removing the plist key that would have allowed you to, not as easily as a UI option, turn this off. In their world, no one has any valid problems with files on demand, and making customers do 100% of the work to fix their mistake is correct and we are wrong for not liking it.
MS is basically engaging in "The Courtier's Reply" to every complaint, and it's kind of disappointing.