TLDR - Similar issues here, seems to be Galaxy. Manual install seems to have pompted Galaxy to stop fucking up for now.
I Just had the endlessly failing update bug, would get to 100% (0.2mb) into the installation and fail.
The game was never played, I had previously (5 days ago) successfully installed version 2.01 via Galaxy.
After trying to abort and verify the game installation I quit Galaxy in frustration. Next time I loaded up Galaxy it told me I had no games installed at all (it just plum forgot where everything was, I had to tell it to scan again).
This is on a brand new (as of a month ago 1TB SSD)
Downloading the manual updates on a web browser and running them worked. Starting Galaxy up again, it still wanted to update, but just a 100mb file this time. All working now.
Had the exact same problems with Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire months ago.
Post edited June 12, 2019 by Porkdish