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Files shared with Anyone sometimes prompt users to request acccess to the file
To add my experience with this: I've started experiencing exactly the problem the OP is describing a few months ago.
I'll create a link to an Office-document stored on Onedrive with permission "Anyone with the link can edit" and share that within my organisation. About half of the time (I haven't been able to figure out a pattern, which makes it very difficult to reproduce) the user trying to open it (by clicking the link in a Teams-chat for example) will not have access and I'll receive an email asking me to grant access to the user. Once I've done so the receiver can open the document again fine.
I've been in touch with my internal IT-support and it seems like I'm the only person within the organisation that this is happening to. I've reinstalled my Windows-installation from scratch but that did not alleviate the problem.
This issue has come up today for a user we support as well. She said just recently for files she shares the users get asked to request permission. I checked the Sharepoint admin settings and the default is "anyone with link" and settings are set for "most permissive." As far as I know she's the only one out of about 30 or so people experiencing this issue, but I'll keep my eyes open for more. Anyway, the SP settings haven't changed for this organization recently so I don't know why this suddenly started happening for this user.