Waldschatten: After how hard they went with the DRM here only to see it fail even more spectacularly than it did with Conan maybe a bit of love from GOG will get them to pull their heads out going forward and not make stupid decisions on every level with every game they lay hands on.
Plus, they're the publishers, so condemning this game because of their poor business decisions (I didn't hold it against RiME when they pulled Denuvo and released on GOG) and an idiot mod that the company didn't support is like punishing Level 5 for doing a great job with Ni No Kuni II because Bandai Namco can be real pricks.
You're right. I haven't honestly realized that this isn't developer = publisher case. In that situation, I'm gonna buy it just to support the devs; I don't think that "denuvo -> okey, we've realized our mistake, let's go DRM-free" like with RiME is a problem, it's actually fairly happy ending, after all this is the same thing that CDPR did with Witcher 2 (anyone remember infamous threat letters to customers in Germany and their stance on DRM back then?). The issue here was mostly their attitude towards customers; you can say "we understand that some companies prefer to release their games DRM-free, we're not keen on that, thanks for understanding" instead of "u bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists lol".