Why does firefox corrupt my bookmarks every time I load it on a different computer?

I found that a number of people have asked how to recover their bookmarks, but my question is why do I have to do it every day? I work on three different computers, and I love Firefox and have it as my default browser on each one. However, I had to turn on syncing bookmarks because every time I logged onto a different computer than the last one I used, sync screwed up my bookmarks, mostly by duplicating folders, but sometimes by emptying them. Now, the entire file doesn't (usually) get corrupted, although today it did, but opening Firefox on a different computer always adds a couple of folders that weren't there before.
Now, I back up my bookmarks manually every day on each computer using the "backup" option with "show all bookmarks" and also with FEBE, which is terrific. (FEBE has helped me recover multiple crashed Firefox installations -- but frequent crashed Firefox installations is another problem). So, I don't need to know how to save/preserve my bookmarks.
I'm just wondering why Mozilla doesn't fix this persistent problem?
bacooper

Sync unfortunately is known to sometimes corrupt or duplicate bookmarks. I had hoped it may have been fixed with the New Sync but apparently not.
* Bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812348 812348] - Firefox Sync duplicating and scrambling bookmarks & folders
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Update
In fact this bug comment specifically may be of interest
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812348#c32 bug 812348#c32]
''If you have lots of bookmarks, or a flaky network connection, or add/change bookmarks frequently, then you're at increased risk of seeing corruption, and there's not much you can do about it. I recommend not using bookmark sync if it's a problem for you.''

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