Chief among them is my looming monthly price increase apocalypse. However, I'm always playing the long game and thinking about contingency plans with data this important. But if I lost access to my photo library stored with Google? That would be bad, but not the end of the world since I have all that data backed up. The chance of getting locked out due to an automated flag is too high - even if I am a paying customer.
I gave up Gmail years ago because even with full backups of all my messages, my email address itself is the key to nearly every other online account. (Well, short of building my own solution, but that's…uh…not yet.) I've tried every consumer photo organization tool/website/app on the market, and nothing comes as close to hitting my feature requirements as Google Photos. As I've written about previously, for better or worse, Google Photos is the initial destination of all the family photos and videos we take as well as the source of truth for the albums I sort them into.
