MicrosoftI am really disappointed that Microsoft's chosen direction is in favor of "add shortcut to OneDrive" with plans to ultimately remove the more traditional sync button. We disabled "add shortcut to OneDrive" because it was creating chaos in out tenant due to unintentional file deletions and the little understood concept that you can either sync OR add the "shortcut" but not both. My disappointment stems from three main points.
First, the paradigm in use with "add shortcut to OneDrive" is unnecessarily confusing by calling it a "shortcut." People know what a shortcut is and it's NOT a sync. A shortcut is simply a pointer. People believe they are dealing with a pointer and they have no reason to believe that deleting said pointer will DELETE all files for everyone...until it happens. If you insist on going this direction, at least rename it "sync to OneDrive."
Second, we have made significant investment in guiding users to SharePoint for collaborative purposes and to reserve OneDrive for personal items, work in progress, or simple, one-off or ad hoc sharing. "Add shortcut to OneDrive" violates this second paradigm by moving collaborative artifacts into personal storage. Why?! Especially, when we have a more sensical option available through traditional sync where the content is logically separated in File Explorer?
Finally, the argument is made that "add shortcut to OneDrive" offers some features that are not available through sync. I'm a bit baffled by this logic. Why not apply those same features to sync? And then get rid of this confusing "add shortcut to OneDrive" instead of the other way around?
It sounds like the ship has already sailed but I do still sincerely hope you reconsider.
