How do you attach an iCloud drive file to email in iOS 8?

I've just updated to the iOS 8 and the only feature I was looking forward to was iCloud drive actually letting me manage files properly - e.g. attach a file to an email. However, as far as I can tell, there's no way to actually do this. There's no "attachment" button in the mail app and you can't even access the iCloud drive via a quasi-finder view to copy/paste... Has Apple forgotten that people like to email attachments to each other?

Likewise, there seems to be no way to save an attachment to iCloud Drive in iOS 8. You can send it to all kinds of other applications. Real life scenario from yesterday:
In train with my iPad. Received pdf document from client A that I wanted to send to another client, B. But I need to do this as a reply to a mail from client B, not by forwarding the mail from client A. HA!, iCloud drive I thought, and pressed the "open in" (document with arrow pointing upwards) symbol. It will let me open in 20 different apps, but not anything related to iCloud Drive. In addition, there is no way to actually insert anything but a photo or video into a new mail. To send something else as an attachment, you will have to start in an app that handles the file type (so I could have gotten half the way by opening the PDF in PDF Expert, or another PDF program, and used the "Send by E-mail" option there - still wouldn't have allowed me to send the doc as a reply to another mail - let alone extracting the file from the mail and getting it synced back to my mac via iCloud drive).
Had to get my Mac from my bag, connect to my phone hotspot, wait for the mailbox to sync, and do the sending from OS X Mail.

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