They offer ways to export your media via the Google Photos API, but you only get the "high quality compressed" version (even if you are storing in original quality) and it strips the location data out of the EXIF tags.
Unless I'm missing something, it looks like the only way to do a full quality bulk export now is using Takeout.
Unless I'm missing something, it looks like the only way to do a full quality bulk export now is using Takeout.