I highly doubt that this mod causes the desync. However you can easily disable the Increase reach distance while holding waterfill
in the mod settings to see if that helps. However as I said I highly doubt this mod causes desyncs as it has been heavily tested over two years on many servers.
This mod also should not affect the joining of new players or cause any form of lag as it does not do much at all.
It should work fine with other reach mods but I've seen reach mods that do it incorrectly and I can't say much for those.