It’s definitely not bad, it has some features discord is still missing. But if you looking for an alternative it’s for sure the thing to check out! Also it is opensource which is quite neat! https://github.com/orgs/revoltchat/repositories
I have been playing a lot of BotW and DRG on it. Playing BotW on it is amazing, for DRG or mainly any shooter on it there is the problem of me not being used to aim with the gyro properly yet.
He could also checkout Immich, which is much closer to Google photos UI.