I completely agree. Nevertheless I switched to Photos a few days ago for the following reasons:
- The integration across devices is perfect (All metadata editing/sorting is synched on all devices while the Only files only reside on my Mac and on the cloud)
- All Photos are still backupped offline with my Mac and from what I see a simple symlink of the Masters folder is enough to back them up to a third party backup service. (w/o metadata but for me this is good enough worst-case protection)
I still miss a few features, but I hope an eventual release of Photos Framework for OSX will be able to add them through a 3rd Party tool:
- Metadata export for a 3rd Party Backup
- Better automation to find duplicates/corrupted images etc. (i have a super messy library of about 20'000 pictures which i cant clean up manually at this point)
- Better metadata editing, especially for geo-tagging (I have a lot of non-smartphone pictures)
- The integration across devices is perfect (All metadata editing/sorting is synched on all devices while the Only files only reside on my Mac and on the cloud)
- All Photos are still backupped offline with my Mac and from what I see a simple symlink of the Masters folder is enough to back them up to a third party backup service. (w/o metadata but for me this is good enough worst-case protection)
I still miss a few features, but I hope an eventual release of Photos Framework for OSX will be able to add them through a 3rd Party tool:
- Metadata export for a 3rd Party Backup
- Better automation to find duplicates/corrupted images etc. (i have a super messy library of about 20'000 pictures which i cant clean up manually at this point)
- Better metadata editing, especially for geo-tagging (I have a lot of non-smartphone pictures)