Doing stuff their customers hate is the default MO of most tech companies. There's very little recourse.
For example, when Apple makes a user-hostile hardware change, every major Android vendor will copy it in a matter of months[0]. The only thing you can go to after that is niche Chinese phone makers that will cause you a bunch of other pain.
I'm basically completely disconnected from Google at this point. My phone requirements forced me to get a phone without Google Play Services, and I live in a country where Google is not dominant. The only thing that still pops up is YouTube occasionally. (Also it would be nice if I could get my old Google Photos archives exported from Photos, but the export in Takeout keeps erroring! Oh well...)
[0]: Back when I worked at Google, there was a mailing list thread on a big internal engineering mailing list, where somebody point-blank asked "Did we remove the headphone port on the Pixel because Apple did?". The answer from the product team was a whole bunch of wishy-washy word soup, amounting essentially to "Yes".
Did you try different export options? I recently had to do one export and it kept failing but exporting using another option worked. I don't remember which one but it was either email or drive.
For example, when Apple makes a user-hostile hardware change, every major Android vendor will copy it in a matter of months[0]. The only thing you can go to after that is niche Chinese phone makers that will cause you a bunch of other pain.
I'm basically completely disconnected from Google at this point. My phone requirements forced me to get a phone without Google Play Services, and I live in a country where Google is not dominant. The only thing that still pops up is YouTube occasionally. (Also it would be nice if I could get my old Google Photos archives exported from Photos, but the export in Takeout keeps erroring! Oh well...)
[0]: Back when I worked at Google, there was a mailing list thread on a big internal engineering mailing list, where somebody point-blank asked "Did we remove the headphone port on the Pixel because Apple did?". The answer from the product team was a whole bunch of wishy-washy word soup, amounting essentially to "Yes".