Photos no longer sync to iPhone 5s

Using all latest up to date software iPhone/iTunes/Windows 7 but iTunes is utterly rubbish at sync'ing! I've got a baby to look after than to worry about simple tasks of sync'ing photos of my little one and instead it's a major chore every time with iTunes, not just this phone but all previous generations I've had. Apple - if you're listening then please please use DIRECTORIES!!! It's straightforward to just copy the files instead of using your utterly useless black box application approach.
I'm fed up with my new iPhone as I've tried all the suggestions on this forum (deleting photo cache, reloading from backup, reboot, reconnect etc etc) but it still doesn't work. Each approach takes nearly half an hour to an hour test out and and then on examination the photos are still not on the phone!
You guys think you're being revolutionary and clever but you're not because you can't make reliable software considering you've had many generations to get it all working perfect but you still haven't! If anything you seem to be losing the plot even more!

Problem seems to be resolved. Photos are now syncing.

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Ctter
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