It seems like a lot of iCloud storage-using services are conveniently designed to just keep eating up more and more space. Take photos for example: most people

It seems like a lot of iCloud storage-using services are conveniently designed to just keep eating up more and more space. Take photos for example: most people only need to archive old photos and rarely access them, but such a use case isn't really supported by iCloud photos. You either keep your entire collection in the cloud and in a state of fast (expensive) retrieval, or not at all. For iMessages every photo or video you sent seems to take up separate storage in the iMessage portion of iCloud, and it's difficult to delete because you have to scroll through and select them.