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Use your Android phone as example. You don’t notice many restrictions there too and it hides the complex stuff successfully for normal users. Rooting has become a thing of the past for most users and everything works as it should.
This does not inspire confidence. The restrictions imposed on Android’s storage, and the hoops you have jump through to get around them, make using my device more frustrating.
You’re describing a more restricted file system than even Windows has.
Proton forces you to pay for a bridge to use Thunderbird.
Tutanota doesn’t even provide that.
These “privacy respecting” email services don’t respect the user enough to let them use third party email clients easily if the user chooses to.