Everything is working very nicely as expected. Migrating from apt, was simply a matter of replacing the syncthing folder in snap/common with my own from .config/
I have a user folder /data I need the syncthing snap to be able to see.
I have gone through the snap documentation but I am having great trouble figuring out how to add a connection to that path. Does anyone have a bit more experience with the syncthing snap that would know where to point me?