Pretty sure the idea is not to be Netflix and offer a family plan, it's to sell a suite of features into small businesses and corporations. E.g. They just acquired HelloSign.

You should move to iCloud if you absolutely want those features unless they say they're building them or you anticipate some form of auto-tagging and face recognition being useful for professional/business users.

The B2C business wouldn’t be nearly as lucrative to them as the B2B business in terms of ROI. They don’t bother with family plans because of the opportunity cost.

Exactly. I do NOT want to use business plan for my family!

They still do not address whether shared folder count against your space. It is just stupid. This means I can not share the photo folder with my family members. If I have 500G of photos, and I share the photo folder with my other family members, it will take 500G from each one of them? How ridiculous it is! This is why I have to convert from Dropbox to OneDrive. I still use Dropbox without subscription, because it auto renames camera photos.

I came here to say exactly this. I can't believe that FAMILY PLANS are still not a thing yet.. So disappointed.

Google Photos is amazing at object and people recognition. It allows you to train it and provides easy access to all the people/pets and more.