I stopped hotsyncing early on with my Palm T3, I prefer to do all work directly on the Palm PIM (the applications I used that needed 'sync' could do it by themselves, via networking, e.g. Avantgo, metro, worldmate). I used pilot-link for backups from a computer, but that's all. So I don't need to hotsync for my GVM usage pattern either, which is, I guess, the major reason I don't have much trouble with GVM.