I see this has been thoroughly discussed on this thread:
It seems it would have been better to not release “Downloads” until the throttling by FUSE had been fully addressed. I would much prefer to use “Sync” at this point. Trying to sync some movies before going off the grid, and it has turned into a very time consuming process, with no advance warning.
And calling it “slowing down” is a bit of an understatement, it’s more like molasses.