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Agreed that the UI could be WAY more intuitive. There are issues with it default-opening for saving to an unwritable directory (confusing people), not being clear about why you're there (no way to instruct the user what purpose they're selecting a file for except the "open"/"save" button), the side drawer is not intuitive for new Android users who might not know there are more services beyond the Download folder, etc. There are too-limited sorting options, the MIME filtering could be extended, etc. Older versions of the framework didn't even let you suggest what saved files should be called...

In the case of a sophisticated media player like VLC I totally get your point. The solution before Q was just to ask for the READ/WRITE storage permissions and have full access. I guess they figure that's too broad access for one app to have.

Upsides-- it works great on Chromebooks, integrating with ChromeOS well, and the convenience of seamlessly integrating a single UI with numerous cloud services with no extra SDKs to include or APIs to learn is also a big plus.