I hear you on a lot of these issues, and as someone who uses Apple everything, I too rely on GDrive. But my girlfriend pays for the 200gb plan and loves it. She

I hear you on a lot of these issues, and as someone who uses Apple everything, I too rely on GDrive. But my girlfriend pays for the 200gb plan and loves it. She doesn't know what a root partition is, and she doesn't want to understand how syncing works. She just wants her stuff to be everywhere as she has come to expect it. This is where Apple shines. I wish they would open it up a bit to allow power users to really fiddle with it, but I would argue that they nailed the intended functionality which is specifically to abstract away all of what you mentioned.