I didn’t know it has that feature, but that’s quite nice.

Yeah, i think it’s the same for Paperless and Immich. It is just a different approach. If you have tags, facial recognizion/OCR, some form of album/collections and other searchable metadata it doesn’t really matter how it’s organized in the filesystem because you can search it easily.

It’s this metadata that opens up the possibility of a separate frontend and backend. Whereas in the olden days it was backend all the way with meticulously naming files and folders.

It is probably better to let the tools handle it themselfs instead of forcing your old habits onto the tools.

Thanks for the whole writeup about your Immich experience. I am definitely coming back to it, when I test it out.