google drive UI detracts from functionality

Not a UI expert, just a user’s two cents. Trying to find, move, organize files and folders in Google Drive could be much better. As is, the current UI detracts from an otherwise great real-time collaborative tool.

June 3rd update: https://support.google.com/drive/thread/35817359?hl=en
As that forum page shows, Google Drive changed it’s “Add to my Drive” to “Add a shortcut to Drive”. This makes sense sometimes, but in some cases, especially if you use “Backup and Sync” you want “Add to my Drive”, otherwise you can’t sync the document/folder. The way to use “Add to my Drive” still is Shift+Z. This switch was never mentioned to me as a user, and the solution was not obvious.

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