mDNS is superior to UPnP, they just made a compounding sum of bad choices that ended up in a bad architecture. I do hope companies start learning that you can't have suit doing running an engineering company
This is a dramatic take. What's worse about Google photos today vs 5 years ago? Android seems a lot better off today than 5 years ago. I know there have been some bad things as well, but overall there have been more positives.
I constantly get "memory" notifications from Google photos, to a degree that I suspect is a bug. It's more frequent than any other notification from my phone. It didn't used to be this way.