Management of the references differs between PW Drive and PW Explorer. If we want to fully utilize the power of PWD, there should be a consistent approach for how the files locations generated in both solutions. If PWE requires a unique link to pw:\\... then PWD should be able to translate it when files are referenced directly from locally synced folders.

As I understand, PWE takes precedence over anything that is set in PWD, and therefore the requested should not be something that works against the files management used in PW Web Connection.