It’s always been the department of oligarchy.

It was faster to export the 1000 items at a time via the photos web UI which still kept the metadata together.

Apple was not much better, requiring an unsupported third party tool.

I have to give it to them, that truly made me not want to use their products ever again.

IT-1: “Look Bob, another ticket from the guy”

IT-2: “LMAO, ask him if he tried turning it off and on”