I wanted to clear my cloud storage and now I have lost all photos on my computer and Ipad

Sir, it happened just a few hours ago. As you can see, the Deleted folder is also empty.

I'm very grateful for your feedback, but how is it possible that I am not notified/warned that "Hey, doing this will permanently delete all STORED photos from all of your devices?".

I am so very hurt and confused. This is 4 years of work. How can downloaded files just disappear from my devices like that? 

How is this possible?

Is the whole ecosystem designed intentionally badly? Or am I just very very very unintelligent?

It said: "doing this will permanently delete 700 something photos that have been synced and 700 something that we've had trouble syncing" All the photos that I could see in the cloud I was willing to lose (even though even that would have been unneccessary as they were also stored locally). But please, for the love of all that is good, how does it make any sense, that this action also deleted 5000 photos on my iPad that have never been synced and that have only been on my device storage? And 23 000 photos on my computer that have also never been synced.

Please explain to me how I am dumb and how this is not intentionally wicked design just to make me buy more cloud storage (which I do not need, let me remind you.)

And please, also explain, how does it make any sense, that restoring deleted files on my iPad requires cloud storage, when these files were NEVER stored in cloud? They were locally stored in my IPad and when I accidentally put them in the trash, all of a sudden I needed extra cloud storage to get them back? Even though they never took any cloud storage to begin with.

Could you please, please, please explain to me how this is not malicious and parasitic design feature and how it is my fault that this happened?

Because I start to get the feeling that I will never get my photos back and Adobe has lost a client for life.

I am hurt. I am disappointed. I feel deeply let down.