How the heck are you just now realizing this? It’s literally always been like that. Anything digital you “buy” has always been just a license. From music on iPods, Windows, and Office to Games. It’s always been that way. Is it kind of annoying and dirty? Absolutely. But I don’t understand how people are acting surprised about this.
GoG may make some market share up with the new CA law. We’ll see. Some competition would be nice.
Won’t fix any of the always online games being bricked when the servers go offline, but still would be nice