@jaredwhite Jared, a quick heads up that in my experience, when you download photos from iCloud, they lose their metadata... the create date is turned into the download date (if it makes sense). I hate it.
I have a ritual where I download the photos of the previous month, pass them through the software Photo Exifer (https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/photo-exifer/id1094567805?mt=12), restore the create date and then rename the files so that they start with YYYY-MM-DD