As a user of ente, I can say I’m pretty happy. It doesn’t have all the features that Google has but they’ve made a promising start. If the search feature becomes comparable, I’d move off Google photos permanently.
Can the search feature of ente become comparable to Google Photos? AFAIK, ente does E2E encryption, which means that unless they index the EXIF data on each single device, and also run the image recognition algorithms on device, the search is never going to be comparable to Google Photos.
If they're extracting a the fingerprints what privacy are you expecting?
A pinky promise that says, we won't read your data?
That would long as long is its bought by Facebook/google. Remember pinky promises made by gazillion startups?