I've been waiting for this with not a little paranoia, given Google's propensity to dump products.

I have over 2k pictures taken since the birth of my daughter in January, 99% of them with my Android phone and uploaded automatically to G+ or Google Photos or whatever this is now called. In order to ensure that they are not just in this one space (which used to be Google Drive and Picasa before that, I believe), I periodically download through Google Takeout, save on a separate hard drive, and also upload to an S3 bucket through Arc so I have redundancy. Then I print the best ones physically through Snapfish.

I would love to stop doing all of this b.s. and just leave them where they lay on Google, but Google has given me no guarantee that my photos are safe. What a nightmare preserving memories is in 2015.