The amount of time it takes to update Cyberpunk 2077 is a complete joke.

I have no idea what it is with this launcher, but the fact that it takes literal hours to apply a patch is something that shouldn't happen. I never faced an issue like this in many years of using Steam and instead of looking forward to playing a new patch, you get hours and hours of looking at a progress bar that moves so little that half the time you're afraid it crashed altogether.

I have no clue who designed this, and frankly I don't care, but you can't - in good conscience - recommend this platform to anybody.

It's pure garbage.

Yeah, this is a rant but somebody but I figure more people voicing their disgust over these issues might bring along changes. Hate on Steam and their business practices all you want, but at least I can install and play a game in a reasonable amount of time.

If you're hating on GoG in general and Cyberpunk 2077 specifically over the Galaxy game client, then you have no one to blame but yourself.

All any game client wants is to collect telemetry data, and unlike any other game client, GoG Galaxy is 100 % redundant.
I buy and download and play any GoG game that I want without the use of a client, and my experience has been close to flawless.

Unlike Steam, I can unplug my internet connection and still play my games without any fuss. I can bring my laptop with me, with the same game installers, and play them on that without the need for a second game purchase, "family licensing" or whatever they call it. The games just work.

I will concede one point though: GoG Galaxy is a really bad client. It serves no purpose, like at all, that I can see other than making things worse overall. So everyone would be better off to just download the games that they buy - every single update of it if they're really into it - and keep a copy stored locally. Inconvenient, perhaps; unnecessary, some might argue - but it works.

Also, unlike many other game installers I have come across, GoG games are in my experience surprisingly flexible when it comes to moving game installations. I don't know how many GoG game install folders I have simply copy-pasted to a thumb drive and back onto a new machine. And the games just work. No need to verify game files, reinstall, any sort of download. The games just work.

That has NOT been my experience in any way with Steam or Battle.net. Don't even get me started on Battle.net - I MUST update the game client, then I MUST update the game...only to enjoy a single player experience? Like what the actual fuck!? With GoG, I buy the game, download the installers onto my server, install it...and play. And that's it.

With regard to Cyberpunk 2077, you want to have it easy, download the entire game every time there is a new patch, delete your game installation, and reinstall it. Also, unlike Steam, thanks to the DRM-free GoG installers (okay, I felt rather disgusted sounding a used car salesman with that phrasing), there are no issues with keeping a separate install of the same game, even in the same directory, but on different patches.

Rating an entire platform as "garbage" because you fail to understand that a patch dozens of gigabytes in size overhauling all of the game's systems might take a while is squarely a "you" problem.

I love GoG as a platform and if I could get the rest of my game library on it, I wouldn't even have steam installed anymore.

GOG is a store. It's not a platform. That Galaxy App you are complaining about and calling a platform is your problem. Don't use it. Most of us here don't. We prefer doing things ourselves.