Gog does now have a launcher, but you can still download the offline installer files for games.

It wouldn’t be impossible that 12 is an improvement. 10 was an improvement on 8. I think, as always, it’ll never go back to a truely good OS, we will just get used to the crap bits.

I think windows is too entrenched in it’s own version history to make good again. You’d need to start from scratch which simply won’t happen within the windows brand.

10 was already deep into hiding settings and fragmenting the control panel.

11 is much worse.