If they coded their windows side better so I can do things in wsl and powershell to see and interact with .jpg/.heic files in icloud photos, an awful lot of my pain would go away. But no, apple knows better than me what I want to do. It's like FUSE and wsl never happened.

Microsoft is no angel. Detangling one drive hooks in sw is a royal pain.

Both of them should be made to offer real competitive product facing each other. I exclude Google because the fs API is at least half acceptable, even if photos is a mess for other reasons.