SilentMRG: What kind of resources? They release updates for it practically daily. There are tons of features and plugins, in fact, there is a browser plugin that automatically solves some captcha, which is good.
Resources like memory usage and things running in the background.
Yep, it has some good plugins or did last I used it, which was mostly for 'certain' types of downloads. It was good for that. ;)
SilentMRG: I used Free Download Manager many years ago and they didn't meet my expectations in general, I don't remember it having a plugin for hosts, what some call an API or something like that. If JDownloader had a plugin for GOG, it would be perfect for me.
Not knowing what version you used, I can't really comment. I've only used version 5. I guess it can be seen as a little bare bones in comparison to some other downloaders, especially JDownloader. But I find it does its basic job well. While I used to use the browser plugin for it, and click on every game file download link, queuing them up in FDM5, I've since been able to automate it via its very limited command-line capability. But of course, that last only works if you are using it with curl, and a third party GOG API program like gogcli or gogrepo.py, for which scripting is required.