I stopped using Google Photos after a bug I experienced few years ago when I configured my phone to upload everything to Photos and remove local copies: I knew

I stopped using Google Photos after a bug I experienced few years ago when I configured my phone to upload everything to Photos and remove local copies: I knew photos are not exact copy and will be kept up to a certain resolution, yet some photos, due to network fault I believe, appeared on Photos as a tiny pixelated copy of the original copy. The pixelated images were probably a result of a interlaced progressive compression. The main problem for me was that client removed the local copy thus costing me few dozens photos forever lost.