Selective Sync of Photos

First, I have read the other replies regarding this somewhat silly situation.

I have an iPhone, and iPad, and 2 Macbooks. I have 200 GB of iCloud storage.

Given that the sum of storage available on the mobile IOS devices is substantially less than the size of the iCloud storage there is no way to sync every photo in the cloud to every subscribed device, and is rather silly to try that.

Doing so does not fit the cloud storage model and would seem to act to limit Apple's potential cloud storage revenue stream. Why buy more storage than can fit on your smallest IOS device?

Is there any way to do this sync using an intelligent push-only strategy? My phone is used as a mobile capture device, it does not need to store the photos since I am not going to do post processing on the phone any more than I am going to do it on any of my DSLR traditional cameras. All the iPhone needs to be able to do is sync the photos up to the cloud so that they can be accessed when needed on a Macbook.

I have a pretty decent grasp of both structured and unstructured data sync, and this isn't the way this is *supposed* to work. Fixed site storage is large, mobile storage is small, and you don't try to dump a petabyte of data into a laptop or ask your sales force to travel around in mobile datacenters the size of a city bus.