I was also burned, in my case by the "free forever" or something "high quality photo storage" (as opposed to full quality).

I understand nothing is truly free, but I expect when a large scale company offers something for free they have thought it true and aren't planning from the start to weasel out once you have uploaded a few thousand images using their solution?

Well, I have learned my lessons:

I don't trust Google anymore.

As some said it took a while to stop trusting Google because they had to burn through a mountain of goodwill, but here we are.