Google clamps down on free storage
This article seems awfully doom and gloom.  I find that:- Google provides really good tools for archiving your data.  If you want to reduce your storage footprint, you can use Google Takeout to grab it, archive it somewhere else, and then clean up items you no longer want.  I recently did this with my photos, I knew I had some huge videos that had been uploaded that I didn't need (I had edited them into a Youtube video), so I was able to find and delete them and open up quite a bit of space.  I toyed with the idea of deleting photos 5 years old, once I archived them, but I didn't need to because of the above.- Google provides a lot of value to me for the $3/month I've been spending.  Photo enrichment and searching is something I use all the time.  Storage of my documents and files is very useful and google has been super reliable.