It has always been a pain to switch to classic only to click that manual share button and jump back to lightning and continue doing the work.
I have been working with LEX for a while and the other option I used all along was this AppExchange product.
Looks like our problem is now solved starting Spring ’21 release.

Clicking on sharing, allows you to create a share record.

Experience Cloud sites and the Salesforce mobile app don’t support manual sharing in Lightning.
[…] with Spring ’21 brought the ability to share records in lightning. With Summer ’21, it is now possible to view the sharing records (with […]