Originally Posted by stephthegeek

It is a nightmare, I agree. But I'm a perfectionist. There are a few things in particular that draw me to Gallery:
- I had a custom module developed (will be releasing to the public once I clean it up a little more) to do automatic webcam archiving
- Bells and whistles such as slideshows, configurable permissions, ratings, commenting, automatic watermarking, multiple ways to add images (including my mobile gallery posted right from my PocketPC)
- It also deals well with additional media formats... automatically thumbnails my videos, ID3 tags audio files, etc.
- You can use the shopping cart as an automatic zip file creator... visitors can add any photos/albums to their "cart" and then download the whole thing as a zip file

Basically I've just grown to appreciate the power and flexibility. I can do things like temporarily hide something, allow guests to only view small versions of images, complex sorting, and generally have very fine control over the media.

Gallery 2.2 is going to have flickr-style tagging support and it's expected that taxonomy tagging of Gallery items will be enabled shortly thereafter for Drupal.