Help with Google Drive shared folders

I recently started working with a volunteer organization which requires everyone to work within Google Drive, sharing documents in a set of folders. Most of us are used to the Microsoft hierarchical folder approach, where it is easy and intuitive to see all the nestings of folders and documents in their hierarchical structure. For some reason, Google Drive just seems to show all the folders on the same level, and the only way to see what folder is a subfolder is to look at the details of the folder, which requires scrolling down the list of all the folder actions so far to show how the folder was created.

We don’t have any choice about using this technology, and most of us are new to it. We have an informal tech team setting this up, but they are mostly new to it as well.

Is there a setting where we can make this look like a Microsoft folder?

Lacking that, is there a better way to set up folders, where it is important to know which folders go where?

You can install your Google Drive folder system on your local computer, such that it will sync with the folders in the cloud. To that degree, it’s a lot like Dropbox. As files and folders, they look and act like a windows file system. However, when you open Google Docs files, etc., from your local machine, and want to edit them, etc. things can get a little clunky sometimes. It’s not quite as seamless as Dropbox in that regard.

I’m a Google Apps For Education admin and has been for eight years.
While it doesn’t look like Win, if you click the tiny arrows next to the list of folders in the left hand pane, it will expand to show subfolders. Is this what you want?