People swallow the cost because it is easier than migrating. My partner has made a lot of albums, tagging in google photos extensively. When her account reaches

People swallow the cost because it is easier than migrating. My partner has made a lot of albums, tagging in google photos extensively. When her account reaches the free limit, I offered her to use google takeout and host her pictures in a local nextcloud instance but told her I didn't had immediate time to dig out if getting back tags and albums from google tameout's metadata was possible and she just grabbed her card details and subscribed to the drive expansion. Gamers are an exception, but gaming is a niche market. Most people using computers are using laptops with integrated intel gpu and never install any game.