This sounds fine to me. Ya'll are making sound like they're refuseing to sync because the FS is encryped. The file systems mentioned are really old. You can use newer FS's that are encrypted. They need to support extended attributes for obvious reasons.
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Age has nothing to do with it. If you keep dismissing tech due to age, you're going to be spending your life re-inventing the wheel and rediscovering the same problems and mistakes over and over again.
By the way, NTFS dates back to 1993. It not included in the expiry list. Every file system mentioned as losing support is newer than that, and they're all under active development and getting better all the time.
XFS became the default file system in Redhat 7 and derivatives. ecryptfs is the default for home directories on Ubuntu. They're talking about wiping out a significant proportion of Linux users here.
ext4: October 2008
btrfs: March 2009
ecryptfs: May 2016
xfs: 2002
Which one of these are old?
XFS is from 1994, ported to Linux in 2002, so it is contemporary with NTFS which is from 1993.
btrfs is "really old" compared to ext4? Default setups of major distros are not worth supporting?