Try controlling what music from your vast library is currently on your tiny iphone. It's a god damned nightmare. Apple wants to "sync" which is just the wrong paradigm.
My phone is not synced with my itunes library. It's just contains a very small subset of it. If I were to draw a Venn diagram of "all the things" it would contain my iphone5, iphone4, ipad3, macbook, other icloud data, plus data on Apple's servers about what apps and TV shows I own but currently do not exist on any device in my possession. Each circle in the diagram has varying degrees of overlap with all the other circles. Not a single one is fully contained in any other. To proclaim that all of these devices are "fully synced" is just plain wrong.