How do I move documents OUT of iCloud Drive and back to my mac?

Since I "upgraded" to iCloud drive, everything is all messed up. I can't view documents in Pages on my iPad; Apple startp[age won't even play movie trailers because it's telling me I don't have Quicktime (which is now in iCloud also), and I feel like I have no control over anything on my mac anymore. I would just like to turn off icloud drive but that will result in ERASING all of my documents that are in the cloud. This is SO STUPID. I want to move every thing back to my mac, and if I want cloud storage I will just use Google drive since it's easier and more seamless.
Any ideas/tips?
Thanks.

Since you mentioned that you delete photos from the camera roll as well as the photo stream, there is no way you can get access to your photos again. Photo stream is nothing but "the cloud". Since you deleted the photos off the cloud, you cannot retrieve them.
As to how photo stream works and how the cloud works, here is a link:
My Photo Stream FAQ - Apple Support

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