That's why the last time I tried to use Mist, I gave up because it was taking ages to sync

Anyway this will become really hard in some years to keep alive a node
And it will increase day by day,a lot of ICOs based on ETH ,this will be a big problem. I often use web wallet instead, so it's ok to me .
So what will you do if the web wallet goes the way of Mt Gox or Cryptsy and you lose everything?
I guess he uses MEW so that's okay.