One time I had a friend send me a few thousand photos on Google Drive. I tried to download those. Oh boy. Do too many at a time and it'll crash, otherwise it's select a few dozen, wait 5min for Google to zip them, then download and repeat.

I finally solved my problem by interfacing directly with their API and writing a Python script to recursively download larger folders. It's sad that I was forced to do that, but it worked.