And that is why I haven’t done any system updates in years. Steal my identity, abuse security flaws, do whatever you want I don’t care I am not updating to lose my most used feature.

There is!

In the settings, towards the bottom, go to backup and restore and you can import your sync backup. Unexpectedly works like a charm straight out of the gate.

Because nothing can change religious fanatics, especially those in positions of power. The only way would be for other countries to take actions against the nations with such backwards governments (trade bans etc.) but seeing as Turkey and Hungary are allowed to stay in the EU I’m not hopeful this will ever happen.