I guess r/gog readers are "biased" too because the last time I read it, people were generally negative towards it there too...

Nope. That's not an honest appraisal of the situation at all. You're trying too hard to put words into people's mouths then argue against your own projections (Big hint: people who start threads like this are not blind Epic haters)... Re-read post #8 which is a summary of the actual main two points people were discussing on the old thread:-

1. GOG may try very hard to want everyone to believe "it's all about branding", but the real issue with "the Epic version is good enough to be sold on GOG" is the very obvious economics for game developers for launching on Epic first (exclusive or not) and then *not* re-releasing DRM-Free on GOG when "our Epic version can be our GOG Galaxy version" is painfully obvious, AND they get paid a larger cut from selling Epic versions on Galaxy than selling a proper GOG version on GOG. What GOG want (branding) and want game publishers want (more money, reduced distribution costs like only needing one version for two stores) are not remotely aligned at all on this. You're hoping they'll like what you like but in reality they will make more money doing the opposite.

2. The "meta-launcher" gamble is unbelievably fragile. GOG's API is under GOG's control, but the ability to continue to "scrape" data from Steam is absolutely under Steam's control. They could at any time, hard break it (start rejecting connections if they come from non-Steam clients) or simply soft degrade it (eg, slow down the rate at which Steam game library gets populated in Galaxy 100x, so loading +800 games into Steam takes 15s, importing the same 800 games into Galaxy ends up 25mins or random "connection errors" 50% of the time, who's going to use that as a launcher then?). It's so ridiculous that people are fantasising about seizing a quarter of Steam's business via permanent long-term unrestricted data scraping of the competition's servers, without thinking about the obvious likely response here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElXi7yDHyWo

You fine example of a biased no-DRM, anti-Galaxy forumite, you :P.

It's like you're part of the original niche GOG has built its user base on in its early days, but has now become "that awkward cousin that doesn't understand my need to grow any more, when all my popular friends like EGS do".

Are we reading the same reddit?

- "Gotta say, this feels like a step backward. I'm all for the single launcher life but GOG sells itself on being DRM free."

- "So basically this just works the same way when you buy a EA game on Steam. Or an Ubisoft game on the EGS. Nothing special then. Just a fancy way of saying "Get the GOG UI for your games on the EGS". I dont see why I should buy a game on GOG that asks me to install another, different launcher to install the game."

- "All I'm saying is that GOG has held up "DRM-free" as a torch for years, so this smells like a sellout."

- "What advantage is there to purchasing through GOG if I still have to use the Epic Launcher? Seems like an unnecessary step. Also it seems contrary to your anti-DRM stance. "

- "If GOG starts to falter on their DRM-free promise, I don't see why I should continue to use GOG over other storefronts."

- "To be honest, I’ve not been a fan of Galaxy since it’s inception, given that GOG made the Galaxy installer front and center in the download section for games, while shrinking the link to the game installers, relabeling them as “backup/offline installers”."

When most posts on reddit ended up agreeing with the "haters" here, perhaps some people need to reassess what "bias" is... ;-)

There were some good explanations by coffeecup on how easy that would be on the old thread. No-one from GOG even wanted to think about that then (and still don't), but I'm still genuinely interested in the answer to "If you're going 'full on' with directly attacking / competing with Steam with the intent to steal a fifth / quarter of their customer base, then what's your backup plan to Steam simply breaking Galaxy's Steam plugin at the flip of a switch under the guise of 'counter DDOS protection' then?..."

The "mainest" main point of all when it comes to this issue is missing from those "two main points."

That "mainest" main point of all being that GOG is supposed to be a DRM-free store, and by way of GOG selling EGS-DRM'ed games, it most certainly is not so any longer.