Why Google Photos is shit!

After happily using google photos for the free backup storage for many years all recent updates to the apps have caused no end of problems.

1. Uploads using the free option have now started using up storage limits for no reason - maybe this is a good ploy to force people to purchase storage.
2. The desktop app is forever syncing and when it starts again causes multiple duplicate photos
3. There is no way to identify duplicate photos online
4. Woke up today to find that photos older than a year or two are now in the bin!
5. You can only restore 1500 photos at a time! - SERIOUSLY!

If you want to backup your photos use local storage first and then use cloud storage as an offsite backup to that instead.

Any stay the hell away from Google Photos as it is far from reliable!