That’s been my experience. I’ve been using Jerboa, Connect, Liftoff, and Thunder before this, and activity has been slowly increasing over the past few weeks. Sync releases, and activity increased significantly within hours. Also, I have not touched another client since Sync dropped. I appreciate the effort of all of the other developers making Lemmy apps, but Sync is home. Nothing comes close.
It really is tempting to click on that $99 lifetime sub. I kinda feel like I got way more than my money’s worth out of Sync for Reddit, and I’ll use it for many more than the five years it would take to pay more for yearly subs.