Q: The sync target needs to be upgraded before Joplin can sync

For your information it seems that pcloud has a rather poor implementation of WebDAV and so, due to causing many problems, it is not supported by Joplin as a WebDAV sync target.

In a post from 2020 a user summarised pcloud's response to a support request as,

... their response to me was we think it should work ok, but if it doesn’t we can’t help you. ...