通过网站上的API从Google云端硬盘显示原始图像文件

Question

Why doesn't Google provide publicly accessible link to raw image files, which could be embedded in a website? As I've researched, they did allow it through G Suite a year ago, but not anymore, their reasoning being that there are other providers for this exact thing. As it stands now, it seems that the only possible way to achieve this is to first download the file via Google Drive API via your server and deliver it to the client. But this seems an overkill. What is your suggestion, should I switch to something else, e.g. Amazon S3, or is this solution scalable/economic enough? I picked Google Drive over Amazon S3 because it's free (at least to some extent).