This pisses me off a lot

They designed their photos app to always ask "y u no backup" and scare you "you gonna lose all your photos if u no backup" and ask to enable backup with the "no thanks" button under the fold

Enable backup = Gmail blocked within one hour because of all the photos we all have in our phones nowadays

So you have to pay or delete that pictures from their servers

Pay Google: unacceptable

Delete the pics from web: they get deleted from phone automatically and there isn't an option to only delete from web but keep in phone

Disable the photos app on the phone: the (Google) camera app doesn't show shot preview anymore because it says photos app is missing

They clearly had multiple meetings to make it harder as possible