I still fail to understand why instead of try building networked apps, like Plan 9 have started showing in the past, we keep going adding web-apps for anything reducing powerful desktops to mere dumb terminal and impose a central point of failure even at home.
Oh, sure, it's easier but going that route means end up in the mess we all know of modern "devops and alike" no one can really know nor manage.
In this specific case, web apps may be very suited as I guess a major usecase is sharing images with other people, and just sharing a link is much easier than having them (say a grandparent with limited technical skills or a one off share with a friend of a friend) installing an application which may not even exist for their device
A link can also be a link to a mountable fuse fs share, like webdav/sshfs/9P etc and the other side can simply browse content not with a specific UI but with it's own favorite UI.
If we rediscover the classic Plan 9 idea of anything is a stream on a network we can create our OWN web on our desktop, choosing what to cache locally, what to sync etc, in a far more powerful, simple, resilient and flexible way.
A small example: we have since decades OFX feeds for financial operations. Why instead of spending gazillion of resources to build and keep up web-banking porcals (portals are another kind of beasts) when we can just give customers credentials and relevant links and the customer operate on a simple XML stream with his/shes favorite tool, with anything in a single place, it's style, automation, ... Perhaps because of surveillance capitalism?
Dumb terminal you say? These days webbrowsers are insanely complicated pieces of software. Servers are much "dumber", especially the ones hosting just photos at home.
Yes, dumb terminals in the spirit, since they are used by most as mere bootloader for a WebVM who is just a way to render a remote application... While incredibly complicated (more than complex) is just the mainframe+dumb terminals model.
My point here is why the hell tie our external masculine genitals to someone else computer and layer crap o crap investing gazillion of resources to make the monster work well enough to be used instead of rediscovering the classic networked desktops model like the one Xerox propose many decades ago?
Oh, sure surveillance capitalism... But are we really so dumb in mean to keep this crap stand?
How simple is just offer a webdav/sshfs (with isolated and scponly accounts) on a homeserver that have an ipv6 global with a proper dns nice domain and those who want just mount the share and read it with their own preferred software like the old classic Plan 9 model?
Oh, sure, it's easier but going that route means end up in the mess we all know of modern "devops and alike" no one can really know nor manage.