Maybe on a $300 laptop.

I use extensive, well organized, subdirectory trees on the external HDD I use for storing my GOG game installers. If a game has 'goodies' as supplementary downloads, then I download them and organise them appropriately on the HDD, when I get the game installers and all DLC. That's not rocket surgery, it's just basic file organizing as you download. And game manuals are NEVER something that should be regarded as being a special fancy item 'goodie'. Game manuals should be archived into the complete installers.
Downloading a number of .bin files is a simple and straight forward process. Tedious? Yes, especially for games where you have 10 or more .bin files to download.

Nope. GOG Galaxy 2.0 still runs poorly on $2000 gaming laptops. GOG Galaxy 1.2 and the website are both resource light in comparison, even if both aren't as fancy looking as you prefer.

I see no point in Galaxy or any frontend in General. I just want the Offline Installer Files. Those will be backed up to my NAS for my personal archive. I don‘t play multiplayer either.

Games which enforce Galaxy iE Cult Of The Lamb should be banned from GOG or at least be labeled as such. If the Dev intends to include Copy Protection, he should at least be open about it.

Just my 2 cents.

A commercial platform markets their product. How wierd is that?

I wonder if itch.io and gamejolt users complain about their frontend as much as we do.

Well!, women seem to complain about their rear ends even more, from I've seen and heard...

I think I'll move to Playnite soon. GOG should just officially abandon this "all platforms together" project and goes back to old client.

Point went over your head here. I'm talking about organizing purchases and downloading them, not storage after the fact.

GOG Galaxy purely and simply was created for the huge number at GOG, and potential members, who want the features it can provide. Whether it does that very well or not is another matter.

I don't use it, end of story for me, except it has become the preferred option for the majority at GOG, and that has impacted the rest of us in various ways, if just because anything Galaxy related gets preferential treatment.

I'm not against Galaxy for those who want it. Just against it when it feels like I have been backed into a corner and using it appears to be the only solution.

One of the reasons I don't use it, is because I have tried it and don't like it, don't like its use of system resources etc, or the way it does things. I also feel such a client is unnecessary, certainly for me.