In my opinion, in light of this, Daylight has no business comparing themselves to Obsidian who provides end-to-end encrypted sync.

I thought it was a little suspicious that you had to "share" links and documents through some web service in order to have them appear in the Reader, and I'm sure there is some helpful processing they may do server-side, but it's obvious now that it's mostly for data harvesting/selling and privacy violation.

Let me integrate the Reader app with the local filesystem and then let me turn off network access for it at the OS level (like GrapheneOS) and I'll reconsider. If you refuse to do that, I'll know why.