Mike Elgan wrote a post about this: https://elgan.com/blog/how-to-replace-facebook-with-nicebook
Perhaps Google will quietly sunset their Photos product in the next fiscal year...
Perhaps they will. You better hurry and use this great product before it's gone.
Hopefully given the launch of Google One, someone inside Google is committed to this product set...
If it didn't feel like Apple was playing catch up with Google Photos, I might've used iCloud more. Also, I hit that 5 Gb threshold very early on.