mqstout: I got this response from misguided GOG support ("Ponczo") regarding this thread. GOG's apparently content with any cosmetic DRM. The fuckers.
All games available on GOG have offline installers available. We stay in touch with the partners and do our best to keep them up to date. However, video games continue to evolve with many titles offering online modes, cosmetics, and incentives for completing certain actions by players. This might be subjective, but as long as these additional features and rewards do not affect the single-player offline experience in a major way, we believe that the developers and publishers should be free to design and sell their games in a way they choose.
mqstout: I think this is bad, but how bad really depends on what they mean here. If they mean promo items and cheat items many games have now, I ignore those anyway as they break game balance. Not saying they should be online only, that's a bad road for GOG to go down, but I'm not crying in my beer over it. If this policy could extend to DLC expansions and whatnot though, then my beer would be filling up with tears.
For example The Outer Worlds had no DRM on Epic until the expansions came out, and now it requires the client to be running to load. If that ever happened on GOG, well... the end times, etc. etc.