[michilehr]

The bad thing isn't that Google wants me to pay for a service.

The bad thing is that some of us have no choice - or need a long day or two to migrate all the stuff.

I am a heavy Google Photos user who has shared a lot of albums. Also a lot of Android payments and much more.

For Google Photos, I can't export and import albums - only photos. So I would have to recreate the structure manually. This alone is a huge task.

If there is a "migrate to Gmail" button all is fine. But there isn't an easy solution.

I am now glad I had to create a private Gmail account for Stadia. But I also have to think about investing more money in games - or not.

[afiori]

The GDPR-compliant export tool they offer should also encode your albums, I don't think it will be easy to port them somewhere else, but it should be possible