IPhoto import - loading everything to Photostream

I just switched to Mac. I imported about 25,000 photos to iPhoto and didn't even realize that they are all now uploading to Photostream!! It's been going on for days without me even knowing that (in a meantime I was complaining to my provider about very slow internet).
Me and my wife have had iPhones and iPads for a while, now we started getting messages saying "Photostream: Daily limit exceded". Suddenly some 10-12 years old photos started showing in our phones in iCloud...
I guess it uploaded about 20,000 pictures already, but another issue is that I can't figure out how to delete all these photos from Photostream without dowloading them back first?? I tried to Reset Photostream from iCloud.com, but Apple removed that capability and I'm reading that the only way to remove all these pictures from Photostream is to download them back to iDevice and then delete them from there?
Is there smarter way?? I can't beleive I'm the only one who moved his picture library to iPhoto. Am I the only one who is having this issue?
Any help is appreciated.

Open iPhoto on your mac and go to the iPhoto/Photo Stream preference pane.  There uncheck the Automatic upload checkbox:
The close and reopen iPhoto.  Go to the Photo Stream section of your iPhoto library select all the photos you want to delete and Control (right) - click on one of the selected photos.  Select Delete from Photo Stream in the contextual menu:
Now, depending on how your mobile devices are set up you'll only get photos taken by those devices in Photo Stream.
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