I think it's good — looks like they made GOG private so they can pursue their own vision and not be pressured by shareholders of CDPR.

Haven't looked at it from that angle. So perhaps it's a positive, though only time will tell.

From the press release, it appears to me that the focus will be even more on game preservation (which is a good thing, though not sure it's also profitable). I'd rather hope they focus more on tools for game developers, so a lot more of the indies that are only on Steam right now might consider releasing on GOG as well.

I keep a growing list of games I hope will come to GOG one day, but in most cases I asked and got a response, it's along the lines that they're a small team and GOG is not worth the hassle. I guess Steam with their API (and in case of Linux, distro-agnostic runtime) is hard to beat.