Proton photos is lacking a lot compared to iCloud/Google photos, and even Privacy-first alternatives like Ente. A ppor photos experience is a deal breaker for many. Heres my full list of suggestions:

• Standalone Dedicated App → The current "Drive" interface is too slow and clunky for media; a native gallery experience is required for smooth browsing and organisation and other features im about to suggest.
• On-Device AI Person Recognition → Proton should group photos by faces without sending biometric data to the cloud like how Ente does.
• On-Device AI Object & Scene Search → Enables natural language search ("Beach," "Dog," "Cake") locally, solving the lack of discoverability in large libraries like how Ente does.
• Photo Map → List all photos in a map if the user has photo location in metadata similar to how Apple Photos does.
• Low-res cache → Store compressed thumbnails for the entire library on device so users can scroll instantly and search without internet, fixing the "slow loading" issue.
• Automatic Duplicate Removal → Duplicate photo removal tool
• Add photos to the proton drive desktop apps → For example on mac, proton drive can sync drive folders. it should also be able to sync photos to desktop helping with better export and import
• Takeout Tool → Includes better importing and exporting (exporting especially). Its really upsetting theres no easy way to export proton photos library easily.