Thanks @shirim for looking into this. I won‘t hold my breath as this ‘feature’ has been present since the inception of digital products.
This should be considered a bug and rectified immediately, not a feature request. The download icon only holds it’s placement when displaying product images of the same ratio. Include various image ratios (say for a photographer) and things get messy.
The current fix which i‘ve see many use when selling digital products is to use the pro image galleries instead of the shop and then link each individual image in the gallery to the relevant product page.
But this is time exhausting and you lose the features and benefits of the shop, such as collection filters and product sorting.
Guess im stuck with an ugly, messy, buggy looking website for now 