[nonameiguess]

Yes, I think it's digital clutter. I expect this is not a widespread behavior, but I haven't taken a photo in 15 years except when required to in order to make a home insurance claim and I snap the parking lot at the airport every time I travel in order to remember where I parked. I'm not going to forget my kids and, frankly, I think they deserve some level of autonomy and privacy not often granted to children. You have no idea how embarrassed they may be in the future and whether they really want those pictures to exist. But when I said this publicly to a friend who was constantly spamming naked photos of her twins to social media, she became no longer a friend, so I understand it's a sensitive subject.

You said yourself you never look at these. People storing multiple terabytes to a NAS and cloud backups likely don't have the time left in their remaining lifespan to ever look at everything they're storing. It's digital hoarding.

On the other hand, I don't think it's completely valueless to at least record a few special occasions. I appreciated a few Christmases back after my mom digitized all of the Betamax tapes from when I was a kid that she had taped my sister's birthday where one of my very first friends was present and singing along and playing with us, since that friend died when we were 12 and I haven't seen her in three decades. One video was enough, though. I don't need a number of photos I couldn't look through if I had until the heat death of the universe.