They are, until it happens to effect them directly.
“He was supposed to get rid of all the slackers and cut off people abusing the system, not fire my entire department!”
“He was supposed to put in tariffs to make China pay more, not to make the price of our goods go up!”
Classic leopards eating peoples faces party behaviour.
Immich is generally regarded as the self hosted replacement for Google photos, personally I have been happy with nextcloud, it’s more basic for photos but still does the job for me.