Can't share iCloud drive with family?

What I saw as the most useful aspect of iCloud drive was to use it like dropbox as a network drive amongst all of our computers and devices. Otherwise, no matter how much syncing is going on, we're are always emailing files back and forth and finding a file is a nightmare. Is it on my laptop or my iMac? Her laptop or iMac?
Isn't that the primary feature of dropbox? Sharing files amongst many computers?
I am beta testing yosemite and tried it out and found there is no sharing, even though family sharing is on.
If you could use a separate account for iCloud drive from the one you use with photos, iTunes, keychain syncing etc, then it could work.
My question is, iCloud drive is REPLACING iCloud, right? So syncing requires our separate Apple IDs, and sharing would require the same ID, so this is an impossible task (to share iCloud drive and still sync our own stuff), right?
I'm thinking I will have to stick with dropbox unfortunately.
Thoughts?

My thoughts are, that Yosemite hasn't been launched yet and that's why we should wait a little bit until iCloud Drive is officially available for both iOS + OS X. Until then, nothing detains us from using Dropbox parallel.

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