I run Immich which makes me really happy. Maybe you should give it another try…

They have not voted yet… Leave them the time to build a concrete plan…

This petition is full of inaccurate claims.

The end-to-end encryption will be abolished and the EU is proposing using pre-installed backdoors to electronic devices, giving the authorities access to all data. Confidential medical files, legal documents, contracts and other agreements, including private letters.

You won’t find apps that provide the same service as permitted by the entire Google ecosystem. That would mean that they are as intrusive as Google and you wouldn’t be willing to use them. You either choose convenience and you can keep Google or renounce it a bit and use one app per function.

I don’t quite understand their solution. I’d wait.

I won’t say no. There are ways to implement a control without intrusion in the privacy of the average Joe.