Immich is awesome but has flaws. My workflow has improved with syncthing instead.

Main flaw of immich is being container's deployable only which hurts for various reasons, and devs priority are different from mine (that's unacceptable/irony).

Jokes aside, immich is the best app out there to replace google photos.

But immich require containers and some basic features like sub-path support and in general folder/albums recognition is not there and not really planned clearly for the future.