Comment by vishnumohandas

All the features you requested for are already on our roadmap. :)

a) https://roadmap.ente.io/option-to-compress-photos-to-use-les...

b) https://roadmap.ente.io/deduplicate-files-p-1165/

c) https://roadmap.ente.io/search-by-metadata-and-exif-p-2487/

We will be shipping all of them.