Ah yes, the feature request from June 22 is indeed the same thing as this. Possibility for headless syncing with a CLI - #34 by jamesbvaughan
Interesting that there is enough access for a plugin to reimplement something loosely equivalent to the built in sync. I don’t think I want to start down that rabbit hole.
It looks like I’ll stand up a virtual machine dedicated to running a single obsidian program. Minimises time cost. Thanks guys