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I wonder what the purpose of such tools is. Archiving? Safe storage? Offering stock-photos for sale? Or just dropping an uncurated pile images into the interwebs?

When publising curated photo-sets myself (<1k pics per feed), I use a static-site-generator approach https://notabug.org/mro/Photos2Atom and rather sacrifice features but long-term robustness and installability.

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Actually being able to find your photos, especially if you have friends and family who share photos with you and aren't willing to adapt to your organizational scheme. Google Photos really shines when you give up trying to organize your photos and let the AI take over. If I want to find a photo of my wife from 3 months ago -- I just tap on her face and it shows up, whether she took it or I did or her mom did, without needing to get everyone to collaborate on a photo organization scheme.

If I could get that from a self-hosted option, given Google's... track record... I'd definitely be interested, though it doesn't seem this is quite there yet.

You can takeout your photos and albums to store in a backup (locally or on another cloud provider)

Some people might take photos of themselves on vacations, or their kids and are not satisfied with throwing them all in a folder and using Windows image preview to look at them.

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