Yikes. That seems so wrong.I havent had this happen. For me the final straw was Windows Defender sending files to be analyzed, without letting you audit which files have been sent over.
There has been an unknown bug for a few years where, sometimes, the process that is supposed to tag the photo for deletion removes it from the list but doesn’t add the right tag for deletion and the schedule process never noticed them and never told the OS to delete the files. They just sat there in the photos library folder, sometimes for years.
The files were never actually deleted, just removed from the photos list. Later another process was deployed that saw unreferenced photos and added them into the photos index. That freaked some people out, particularly if they really had wanted to get rid of those photos.
This all happened as a higher level than the OS. The OS file deletion process was never invoked for these photos.
Apple's quality control has been getting worse every year. This is something we say every year; that's because its true every year. They started the highest coming out of the 2000s, plenty big laurels to rest on. But their (and Microsoft's) software has gotten so bad nowadays that linux desktops are starting to look stable (and don't interpret that as an endorsement of the improvements in stability of the linux desktop experience, not even close, year of the linux desktop might happen but only because everything is so shit that you might as well at least use the shit that isn't taking screenshots of your desktop or resurfacing photos you deleted five years ago).