I'm not sure if this is more related to Box Drive or Box Tools, but it seems like it should be possible to open files in their native app rather than in the browser, or even just to open them in the Finder rather than on the web.

Some of the reasons:
1. Lots of people need to know where a file is within the larger heirarchy or get a file path, and it's significantly easier to do that in finder.
2. Lots of people just don't like having to click the extra few times.
3. It's frustrating to be logged in to the Box Drive app, but find that due to a restart or a timeout you need to re-sign in on the web, just so you can click a link and have the file open in finder/native app like you wanted in the first place.
4. I think the ideal implementation from my point of view would be if the Box Drive/Tools app opened a system dialog box that let you choose to open the link in the web, the native app associated with the file type, or in Finder.