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I started moving my things out of Apple two years ago.  Two years on, I'm still entrenched in a few places.  I can tell you, Apple does everything they can to keep you in.  Slow download rates, surprisingly frequent failed downloads from iCloud.com, requesting your data from Apple takes at least a week while they put it together, etc.<p>One of last form of lock-in that I'm struggling with is iCloud Photo Library.  A service that has been a blessing and a curse.  I've been saving my photos there for the better part of a decade.<p>I'm working on getting my photos out (first by requesting my data from Apple, then from iCloud Drive on Windows) and I'm appalled - everything gets dumped into one directory.  Inconsistent file naming. Timestamps not always accurate, and "Date Taken" seems to have disappeared from a number of my photos.  Albums are not included (unless you count them being a list dumped into a csv). All of that data is kept inside iCloud.. only for them- not for you.<p>So what comes next is a long journey to re-organize all of my photos by year, month.  I'm not even sure if my Hidden photos got copied over.<p>This is all 100% a dark pattern to keep users locked into Apple.  How many people would get this far?  Not many- my wife would have given up at having to request her data from Apple. Then how many would stop when they find out all of your photos get dumped into a single directory (30k photos!) if you try to leave?<p>All of this is to say, I'm done with Apple. I want control of my data, not this circus show.