Definitely giving this a go, seems exactly what I’ve been looking for for my small self hosted stack.

Well yes, if you want a decent search function, duplicate detection, etc., then E2E is just not feasible.

Immich developers confirmed they will never implement it, as it breaks too many features of Immich.

“Better”

Maybe if they’d fix their glaring security issues

“Fine” is pretty relative when your mother rather dies in a faraway war than take care of you