Comment by nottorp
Too late to edit... i just got around to checking and I do have system wide reduced motion and reduced transparency on this laptop. I'm sure I didn't set it up on there, just on the phone.
I think Apple is starting to sync too much...
That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to sync. Accessibility settings are exactly the type of thing you shouldn’t have to configure again and again on every device.
Either way, you can disable syncing of system settings.