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The attachment from the screenshot appears to be an Excel spreadsheet and Gmail shows a thumbnail, the title of the file and an icon that's also used in Google Drive for Excel files. Here's the standard interface:
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It's likely that Google wants to move Gmail attachments to Google Drive. Now Gmail and Google Drive use shared storage and Google Drive provides better ways to manage, search and share files.
Here's some Google Drive code which suggests that Drive could include some system folders for Gmail attachments and Google Keep notes.
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{ Thanks, Florian K. }