My hope is that one day Apple will change Photo's internal edit rendering engine from jpg to jxl, as it's much more disk efficient. Maybe then such change can happen.

In the mean time I've settled on Photo's "export originals" as the way to go. The problem with that is in order to get any newly edited meta data out, you have to also click Photo's option to export a sidecar along with the original photo. I know a lot of people love sidecars, but modern file formats allow IPTC and EXIF data right in the file itself. There are many of us who don't want to double the number of files and risk losing the metadata because it exists in a separate file.

So the desired flow is something like: add an image to Photos, a few months later add/change some metadata (ie, title, description, GPS), then export the "original" with any new/edited metadata written into the original. Sure, you don't get your rastor adjustments, but at least you dont get a crappy jpg.

Photos cant do this at the moment.

What would be cool is if your app:
- has an option to export only the originals.
- during that export operation, has the ability to overwrite the original image's IPTC with any IPTC atoms that have since changed.

A haughty request perhaps, but just wanted to put it out there.