Obsidian Sync not syncing plugins and settings

[Sentiment]

A lot of people have been struggling to understand and configure settings sync.

e.g.,

• Question Regarding: Obsidian Sync & Obsidian Configuration
• How does settings sync work
• Syncing Settings doesn't work at all - #13 by Mavalator
• Sync settings between vaults
• Unintuitive UI for setting up Sync on mobile app
• Sync Types
• Improve start experience on new machine with Sync

For me, the confusion is:

Question Regarding: Obsidian Sync & Obsidian Configuration

I have had similar problems. It’s very unclear to me how the settings sync flow is supposed to work (what overwrites what, what is tied to the device, what is tied to the remove vault, what is tied to the Obsidian account independent of any vault, what is the ultimate source of truth, etc). For me this is by far the most confusing part of Obsidian. Pretty much every time I set up a new device, it doesn’t work the way I want and I give up on tweaking it, because it’s too laborious to mess around …

I like obsidian a lot, but settings sync is by far the most confusing part. Text sync is totally intuitive and works just like you’d expect. Settings sync, imo, is the opposite.