Apple tries to force you to use the Photos app on the Mac to store your photos. But I never trusted it. Maybe because I didn’t understand what data model it was

Apple tries to force you to use the Photos app on the Mac to store your photos. But I never trusted it. Maybe because I didn’t understand what data model it was using behind the scenes. They don’t advertise that part. Even though for the most part it works pretty well. In fact, for most daily uses, the Photos app works almost magically. But once, after a few years of perfect usage, the program crashed. Then it started crashing more regularly. Then finally it completely died. Data corrupted. Completely unusable. Major system malfunction. I lost all my photos and videos in the Photos app. But because I was always paranoid of it, I had the original pictures backed up elsewhere. So data saved. But I never trusted the Photos app again.