Connected account balances not updating with pending transactions (edited)

Well, if it's not a bug then it will have to be a super inconvenient backwards jump in functionality. Honestly I don't know what else to say…

I am experiencing the issues discussed in this thread as well. After reading the comments on this thread, I do have some questions. This is the first time I've posted here (although I am a borderline-obsessive user of the software), so please forgive me for any ignorance. For clarity, I will name the specific issue and then ask my questions beneath it.

1. Manual accounts no longer immediately react to the entry of a transaction. There is a 15-minute delay. The "re-sync balance" button must be clicked each time I enter a transaction if I wish to immediately know how an account's balance is affected by it.

I understand from the above comments that the "re-sync" button for manual accounts is a new by-design feature and not a bug. Does this mean that the manual account balances updating on a delay is the new baseline behavior of a manual account? If so, why? Is it to improve speed/performance of the software? Is it an unfixable bug that requires a workaround in the form of this button? I ask this because the old baseline behavior (immediate reflection of transactions) seemed far more efficient, i.e. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". If the delay is the new norm, while I'm not a fan, in isolation it's not a dealbreaker for me as a user. I just want to understand.

2. Connected accounts also no longer immediately react to the manual entry of a transaction. There is not a re-sync button on manual accounts, which means the only option is to wait for the sync. And I'm noticing that it is often longer than 15 minutes, maybe the "few hours" described in the connected account sync frequency settings. In other words, the manually input transactions reflect when the bank updates trigger. That's only an assumption, though.

I am a bit more bothered by this issue. It makes the software feel unreliable. I'm confident there will be a fix rolled out soon, as the team has been great so far, but this problem is terribly counterintuitive to my most-used features at the moment. In fact, it renders useless most of the purposes for which I use Simplifi, so I hope this is not fixed with another sync button. I'm dreading that I'll probably have to go back to Excel to keep up with my finances until this is resolved. I guess there weren't any questions in that, but this is how I view it.

Thank you!