Google's way is getting free software out, gathering as much data as possible, and when they have what they want they shut down the service. That's why none of their services can be trusted.

Takeout time! https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout?pli=1

I mean it never said you could continue to upload for a lifetime, just that you could store a lifetime of memories. The old photos don't count against your storage.