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It's the main way I sync my phone.
I have a different app for photos, but SyncThing on my phone, and on my desktop, and again on one of my home servers, do most of the download and data syncing.
Occasionally I'll have to manually run SyncThing; I'm not certain that Android is reliably starting it after reboots, but for the most part it just does it's thing really reliably. There is a lag; it can take a few minutes for changes to sync - it's not immediate. For me, this isn't a problem, and I'd rather that than a battery suck, so I haven't messed with it.
I could live with a few minutes, but it's showig as offline for days. Maybe it is failing after a reboot. At least that would be a known situation to watch for.
In my experience syncthing is always a bit like that using the default discovery settings.
I use a hub & spoke set up now. Instead of A, B, and C all connecting to each other directly, they only connect to D. I also input the address for D specifically instead of using discovery servers.
With this set up I've never had any drama.
Honestly, I think Android is fucked for debugging stuff like this. I installed a program on mine and my wife's phones - different makes & models - and configured them exactly the same, including the app settings in the OS. Mine works perfectly and barely shows up in battery use, near the bottom. Her's drains her battery even when she's not using it, regularly running at 50% of total battery consumption.
With Android YMMV is the rule, rather than the exception. There's just too many variables.