Lightroom Classic ridiuclously slow sync-settings

Hi,

I've read that others have been having issues with slow Syncing settings for some time now (using the Sync tool in the Develop tab) but it doesn't look like it has been addressed with any real solution.

I'm using the most current version of 8.1 and it currently takes 9 minutes and 36 Seconds to sync 550 photos on my workstaition.

If I use version 7.1 of LR Classic I can sync the settings to the exact same photos and it takes 24 seconds in total.

There's something wrong with the newest version of LR Classic to say the least (for at least the last 3 updates). This really needs to be addressed.

My current build;

Windows 10 Pro

Xeon Gold 5120 28-core @ 2.8GHz

192GB DDR4 3000

Quadro P5000

2TB M.2 Samsung 970 Pro

Any way (other than reverting to older versions) to fix this would be amazing.

And yes, I've optimized my catalogs and started new, fresh ones, it doesn't change the slow syncing times.

Thanks,

Drew