GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” | Game World Observer
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GOG has reportedly cut dozens of jobs recently. Here are new details about the situation at CD Projekt’s subsidiary and the shortcomings of its business strategy.
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I don’t use their launcher at all.

It’s kind of a convoluted process but you can definitely download every game you own through gog without it.

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Can you not download from the site on mac?

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Yeah galaxy is sadly a bit of a mess. Back when i was still running windows it broke its own update capabilities once or twice.

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It also has a bad habit of keeping a zombie process running after you fully close it

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If I could just download right from the Website

You can.

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They do not make that obvious. I downloaded the launcher and when it didn’t work I bailed. I’ll check closer

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