It is very overbearing to have this on what is essentially a cloud storage service. Especially when they also make it a lot more difficult for third-party cloud

It is very overbearing to have this on what is essentially a cloud storage service. Especially when they also make it a lot more difficult for third-party cloud storage services to function effectively (being able to run in the background automatically when charging, etc). Now, if they wanted to implement this solely for "shared albums", that's a different conversation.