Nope, they're in the advertising biz now. They aren't so much "dropping the ball" as playing a ballgame (extremely well) that you dislike (because it's harmful and exploitative and destroys the tools you love).
They're just a new microsoft. Or since they're in a particular phase of that development, let's say a new M$. Embrace, extend, exploit.
What new products have Apple or, seriously?, Facebook created that you actually like?
Pretty sure people aren't leaving Google for Apple & Facebook because they want to build good new products.
There's absolutely no mapping between folders and albums. If you sync your photos and don't organize them into albums manually every time, the folder structure is lost completely.
Pretty much all Android apps will only let you pick images from folders. There's usually an option buried in the hamburger menu to pick images from Google Photos, but you can only see ALL your photos lumped together, no option to choose from an album.
Sure, you can use the share feature in Google Photos, but that doesn't work if you need to use the image in a specific context, for example replying to a specific tweet.
With iCloud this all works seamlessly, my only gripe is that album order does not appear to be synced and even if I reorder them on my device, many apps appear to list albums in creation order. But overall it's still better.
Robots that kill people? Come on, there are people that think that's cool.
People aren't going to be happy without uBlock and Ad Block...
Google has been REALLY dropping the ball in the last 2-5 years. What's a NEW Google product that you actually like (that they didn't acquire)?
They literally CAN NOT build new products that people like.
... all their hardware products suck. New things like Google Allo exist for like a year and then they are killed.
It seems like they give a half-assed attempt at creating new products as a way to keep skilled talent at Google rather than having them leave to work for Facebook or Apple.
They're actually DECENT at large acquisitions but that's the only thing that's saved them.
It's really a shame because Chrome is actually a GREAT browser but I won't use it without ad blocking.
I've already migrated to Firefox on my phone and it's been pretty great so far. It also supports extensions on mobile which is huge!