Announcing my Upload-to-Google-Photos Plugin for Lightroom: Prepare to be Disappointed

Six years after Google unveiled their “Google +” social network with photo hosting, with heavy emphasis on
photographers, and a couple of years after Google shut down Picasa Web Albums, the sort-of-backdoor way
to upload photos to Google, Google has finally released a photo-upload API, so that I can make
a Google Photos plugin
for Adobe Lightroom.

Sort of.

What Google allows at this point is extremely limited, and I don't hold much hope that it'll expand.

As of today's initial release, the plugin can:

create an album in Google Photos
upload photos and video to such albums.

That's it. Nothing more. The plugin can't upload to existing albums or any album not made by the plugin.

The plugin can't delete or update photos, even ones it uploaded in the first place, so we can't make a
publish service.

From the employee-developer interaction I've seen so far, I don't hold much hope for this API.

More information, and updates as they happen, on the plugin's home page.