Did you forget I work on health care? Sharing encrypted files, dynamically adding and removing permissions to them is where I spent most of my career. Blossom is fine. Can we do better? Sure. But at what cost? I am not convinced there is any need to make things a lot more complicated just for the sake of sharing permissions to access files. The more complicated these systems get, the worse it is for security and privacy of that data. And usually vendors that are pitching complicated systems are either centralizing things on themselves or finding shady ways to get access to some of the data to sell later (by logging the transport layer, for instance).
Yes, a LOT of functionality can be added to these types of things. But I have not seen anyone actually asking for them on Nostr yet. Which means it might just be middle management bloatware.
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I don't know how to argue with "no one asked for it on Nostr yet" when I am asking for them, and literally millions of people are spending arguably too much money for Proton Drive to have exactly what I am asking for but without the open API.
But again, if you don't care, you don't care, ain't no arguing with that.
I think an online personal file storage system would be great to have. But the way Google Drive and proton drive work is not good. They are designed to let the company control such files. I think we need a new take that gives more control to users. A private blossom server, where you can have decrypted files for yourself could be a simpler start. If it is not about sharing access to them, all it needs to do is to sync between devices. If it is about sharing access or even enable collaboration (allowing friends to save into your space), then I would say that it is a different solution and it might be a different app just for that.