What makes the modern iCloud such a poor cloud service? Echo chamber mentality?
I am stupid, I guess. I got excited about it initially, signed up for a mid-tier plan (200gb, I think), then turned on Family Sharing and thought, Wow, now I can finally view my photos on Apple TV without jumping through hoops.
Nope! iCloud is limited in so many ways: you can't actually share space with your significant other for anything but photos. Like backing up her iPhone (64gb). The phone keeps asking her to upgrade. Or how about consolidating all my photos on iCloud? Nope, not that easy. How about putting other stuff, like random files and sharing them with my "Family?" Nope, Apple doesn't want me to do that either.
So, I cancelled iCloud. I have DropBox Pro, DriveOne (5tb for $99 per year, plus access to the Office Suite!) and Google Drive. Oh, and I have or have tried stuff like PopDrive, Box, etc..
Based on my experience with all of these, iCloud is the worst of them all, and expensive to boot.
So, you tell me why you think it's so great?
As far as iPhoto, its database got corrupted a few years ago and I lost metadata for all of my old photos. I don't like the way the database is structured and I would take a lot for me to trust it again.