So I have read through the comments here and I explicitely state that I do understand the concept of the virtual drive and the option to force files as offline available in the cache.
Like many others here, I’m very skeptical about the idea of completely replacing folder sync with virtual drives. For me, I really appreciate the existence of a physical copy in the correct directory structure placed on the local hard disk. I can do anything with this directory I can also do with normal directories (because that’s what it is). A few examples:
Even in the case of computer emergencies (e.g. linux single user mode), I’d be able to access the files and copy them to a different device, if needed. I just can’t do that with virtual drives and I loose a lot of flexibility.
I can easily move this directory easily to a different partition in case I run out of disk space.
I can easily spread different synced directories across different local hard disks, just using native file system operations.