I don't want to degoogle, but having all my photos hinging on a Google account that can more or less arbitrarily blocked by Google gives me anxiety. Google Takeout effectively destroys your data by stripping all metadata from the photos and putting them into a json file. I haven't found a good solution for regular backups of Photos, has anyone else?
Call me old fashioned, but I just don't feel confident in placing my valuable data only with a provider like Google. One day there will be an "Ooopsee, we found a bug in our hash function (refactored by summer intern) and um...data for 'a very small number' of users was backed up to the /dev/null shard..."