Gmail – Send .exe Files Without Special Actions by the Recipient

I read through this: How can I send a Windows executable via Gmail? (and similar questions here and on SO), but all of the answers I came across rely on the email recipient doing something special such as

• changing filename extensions, or
• accessing cloud storage services.

First, linking to another cloud service is not sending via Gmail. There are reasons you may not want to use an outside service.

Second…What about sending e-mails to people who are not tech-savvy?

There are many kinds of files that Google does not want attached directly (described here https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590?hl=en), but you should still be able to send them in some way that

• leaves them accessible to casual computer users (who may have file extensions hidden, for example), and
• does not require the use of other cloud services.