Sharing via ProtonDrive is kinda a disaster

Me and my SO just had an eventful weekend, and I wanted to share photos/videos from that weekend with her, (without texting downgrading the quality).

I have proton unlimited, so I uploaded the photos/videos to a protondrive folder and shared it with her email. I was sitting next to her as she accessed it, and it was such a hassel,- She opened the email, which sent her to a webpage, which forced her to make an account, tried to upsell her to a paid account, prompted her to download the app, which didn't have the shared folder immediately in said account and immediately and unprompted started backing up her phone's photos, so we had to navigate around figuring out how to turn off backup. then back to email, back to protondrive on webbrowser, and even downloading was kinda unintuitive.

The process of sharing a protondrive folder/file with someone without an account should be so much simpler, I should be able to simply hand someone a URL, they click the URL, hit "download [file]", and done. I get Proton wants more customers, but forcing people to make accounts just to access shared files is not the way to do that, it leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth and makes me not want to share drive files with people; I felt the need to apologize to my SO for making her use this unpleasant app, despite a moment ago being excited to use it. If you want to sell people on using your product, make the process of sharing your files simple enough that I want to share and then people can have a good first experience.