Maybe I'm not the best person to talk about this, because I simply don't take photos and I'm a bit of a sociopath when it comes to stuff like this.

I get photography, will probably get back into it that one day (film photography though, the darkroom/development process is something I enjoy)

but I don't get photographing everything that happens in your life. It happened, that's enough for me, onto the next thing that will happen.

and, disliking clutter on my phone and disliking the notion of wasting data or battery power with superfluous background processes to mirror my photos on iCloud, I turn off all the iCloud auto-uploading stuff, take photos sparingly and purge them regularly. I've had the same 40-ish photos on my phone for the last 4 years and I'm cool with that.

I think the problem being discussed is one that was created by us in the first place when someone decided that manually uploading a good photo was too much work.