That’s part of the curse of history - you don’t get any benefit from the history, but you do pay a price for it. Your sketches aren’t history-based, why should the rest of the model be? What if the whole 3d model reacted to change the way the sketch does? You don’t worry about who came first in the sketch. You shouldn’t worry in the model either, because there’s no benefit. We’ve just been brainwashed for the last 30 years that this is the right way to do it.
And best practice? It becomes much simpler if you don’t have to worry about history, or only have to worry about it in limited situations.
To answer the best practice question, though, the synch part of the model always comes first, and the history part comes second. So if you update the synch part, the history part will update to match.
Synch modeling doesn’t have much best practice. With synch, as long as the model is right, no one cares how you got there. There are some methods which are more successful than others, but that’s more in the line of basic training.
This is still kind of relevant to subscription. Because the underlying question is “should we ditch subscription and/or solidworks”. Solidworks is easy to use, but in the end, it tends to lead you down the wrong path and leave you without proper tools. Lack of real direct modeling is one example. Configurations are another. External references are another.