--low-level-retries-sleep?

I think rclone does all those things

  • it implements (truncated) exponential backoff
  • it obeys Retry-After headers if sent

It might be that it isn't tuned correctly - the max sleep maybe needs to be higher than 2 seconds?

Try modding the code as I pointed out in the issue and see if you can get it to behave how you want it.