How do I change the location of the Google Drive folder?

I gotta say: This was a botched roll-out! Not only are users being pushed to upgrade, but then GD makes changes instead of keeping the old settings. My GD all the sudden was now on C drive. Ironically I had to google how to change it to the former location, like this thread here explained, because that is practically impossible to find from a UI perspective. And now I almost nuked my files …

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/127939092/how-do-i-change-the-location-of-the-google-drive-folder?hl=en