I think GOG/Bethesda should release a changelog, but I think some people are also a bit paranoid here for multiple reasons:
-It is not that unusual for GOG and Bethesda to release a patch for a game on GOG without providing a changelog + "Restarter.exe" is also included in the Steam version (confirmed with my Steam installation of Prey)
-Since release the download for Prey has been removed multiple times and then re-added with the same version number: 10966486/1158493447 (originally added on 27-05-2020, See GOGdb). The last Steam update was on 23th of July 2020 (SteamDB). Prey was updated 5 days ago to version 12742273 with an accompanying patch (if there were malicious practices in play here, I highly doubt they would go to the lengths to make a patch).
-Point 2 points possibly to the possibility that the GOG version has been outdated ever since it released here and has never been updated to the very latest version until now. But well, that last patch on Steam (
https://steamdb.info/depot/480491/history/) removed the game's Denuvo DRM (
https://steamcommunity.com/app/480490/discussions/0/4150581887545710507/ and
https://steamcommunity.com/app/480490/discussions/0/4149455258720610883/), so maybe they are now just bringing parity to both the GOG and Steam versions (while still integrating GOG Galaxy, overlay, cloudsave support etc.). Maybe so that they are thus now file-wise the same to avoid maybe some bug they found in the GOG port done earlier in May 2020 (could have been outsourced) instead of the DRM free Steam version from July 2020? (likely done internally)