Is Google Photos THAT bad for privacy?

As others have pointed out, its that bad

But I do understand where you’re coming from, you want to take advantage of a still existing loophole to get unlimited google photo storage (Until google finally shuts the light on that)

I would say its fine ON THE CONDITION you watch what you upload to google photos

if its honestly say photos of landscape and stuff and doesn’t involve a person or people being in it and you strip metadata, I’d say it can be a pretty safe bet but that’s what I’d limit it to, I’d otherwise rather use something like Ente instead or Immich even if its not unlimited