Well maybe we will have to agree to disagree, because from my perspective GOG is a pretty well known store now.

Whether or not its customers use it properly as a DRM-Free store or not, is kind of irrelevant.

You could maybe claim that DRM-Free itself is niche, but certainly not the GOG store, where possibly the majority of users just do the direct download and install with Galaxy and aren't really being a DRM-Free user.

Niche generally means a small subset of users for something quite unique.

I would suggest The Witcher games alone, have prevented GOG from being niche ... and then Cyberpunk 2077 came along. I know they were created by CDPR and not GOG, but the connection is loud and clear.

I agree with timboli. The customers for whom DRM-free is important are niche, yes. But GOG isn't. For the majority DRM-free is just a meaningless buzzword, like it is for GOG marketing. Otherwise GOG would not have abandoned it, like they have. But they sell DRM-ed games and they push more and more towards making Galaxy a mandatory client, by abandoning the support for the offline installers. And by actually making it mandatory for some game features.

Indeed. Seriously, niche is Fireflower Games, if you want an example. Or the stores that focus on sex games. There are orders of magnitude, multiple, between that and GOG. There may be one between GOG and Steam. GOG's a middleweight. And that is because it gave up on its niche, its values, for market share.