It featured geotagging and made it pretty easy to get really nicely organized albums for trips.
However I don’t really want my stuff on their servers nor am I fond of the subscription for trips I get to take maybe once a year these days.
Currently I use syncthing and some gallery apps (immich, photoprism), but due to network conditions (CG/NAT) accessing these outside my local network can be annoying at times. Ideally I could sync&transfer photos and have them cached on the device instead, which is what Journey accomplished for me.
I like Photopea, although I feel bad… I should have clarified, I specifically meant mobile editing apps unfortunately! For the times when exposure is just a bit low.
I have the whole adobe suite for PC editing, since unfortunately too many of my projects just rely heavily on them. No creative cloud for me, though!