> *In fact, this UI is basically identical to the Drive UI, including separating the functionality of creating a public, shared link and sharing with a specific

> *In fact, this UI is basically identical to the Drive UI, including separating the functionality of creating a public, shared link and sharing with a specific person. It's downright surprising that Google Photos acts in a different way than Drive here. Just a guess, but I'm betting this is an issue with how compartmentalized Google is within itself, that it was just simply two different people had two different solutions to how "links to objects" should work and it simply never occurred to either of them to check what the other products are doing.