I have been using Opera as my main browser in what I consider, for me, a logical and practical way. I use a PC at home and a laptop and a smaller notebook for different external environments. The speed dial contains links that I use often, banks, airlines, news sources, etc. and I use the bookmarks as a kind of index for references, some of which get accessed maybe only a couple of times a year but which I know are there and save me searching for them before I can access the information needed.
As long as speed dial was synchronised, this all functioned effortlessly. Not any more and, as soon as I can find another browser with exactly the functionality that Opera once had, I'm away.
It seems to me that all software suppliers eventually fall into the same bad habit - they stop thinking about what suits their customers and concentrating on that in favour of embarking on making changes, not because they improve their customers' experience, but because they can!

Philip