Hi folks,
although i understand the technical reason behind i think the export currently isn't the best user experience. You have to find your file in the dashboard, choose export from the toolbox, choose a name and format and at the end you don't get the file but have to wait until the cloud based export renderer get's your export finished. Of course the latter part doesn't take that long normally but you still have to wait or most likey switch to other tasks until you get notified about the finished export.
(actually i'm waiting for an export to get finished while i write these lines.)
When the export is finished you have to go back, find the exported file in the dashboard and download it.
How about offering the option in the export dialog to directly send the exported file with the notification email or instead of it. Maybe this won't be a big deal for some of you but i would find that extremely helpful and i think it should not be too hard to implement.