Macbook Air M1 - Syncing icloud photos is stuck on "syncing to icloud..."

I have been trying to sync my photos from my iphone to my mac for the longest time. Unsyncing and syncing back on both my iphone and macbook, the outcome is still the same. Nothing seems to sync on the photos app.

I also tried to delete the library, creating a new one and using it as system library, still no change. I have run out of solutions to try, nothing is working for me