Ente gives you 10GB of storage for free so you have nothing to lose if you check it out. I used the free tier for photo backups and looks very similar to google photos. https://ente.io/#pricing
I signed up for Ente last fall as a Google Photos replacement. The backup works fine. The Android app is prone to crashing so I don't use it as my go-to gallery app. The process of moving a big library of pictures away from Google was painful. Ente does a lot in terms of making it easier - but it's still a pain in the butt. Their desktop app runs poorly on old desktop hardware if you keep their machine learning on. The ML lets you search images content down the line.
I signed up for a year and I'm already looking at another solution. Laziness may win though because transferring the library was a terrible experience.
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