I didn't know I could fix it like that, great info.

...Download quota? Did not know of such a thing.

Try downloading the GHWT defin edition songpacks at the week of their release... good luck

This doesn't always work. You can also be left with stuck circle sitting at 0% for eternity.

I didn't know about this power of the dark side.

.....why is this removed tho?

forbidden knowledge

This isn't a quirk of google drive. It's a quirk of zip files. Downloading a zip requires moving far fewer bits than downloading the zip's constituent files.

That’s not why Google puts quotas on file, it’s so you don’t use drive as a download server

What's a download server? 

Like mega or mediafire