Flickr gave plenty of advance warning and are charging a quite reasonable fee including unlimited storage and tons of editing software tools included. Under 2000 photos still free. They have been up front and honest about it all.
They were, but the Google storage should I choose tp pay for the TB, is reasonable, and more loss less, I've played with it from all platforms. Plus? I'm already paying for a TB with my LR/PS subscriptions, and then $30 a month for my website... how many more places do I need to pay? lol
My FAVORITE thing about flickr, is when I want to see what my next gear purchase performs like, I can go there, and search it. And I'll get clicks taken with it as the search result. It's been very informative.