What is the point in the Red launcher? We already have GOG Galaxy....
This seems pointless. Also it install to %appdata%\programs, why doesn't it just run from the game's folder?
Why is there also a %appdata%\REDEngine with an empty invisible folder? Why not save to %appdata%\CD Projekt Red\Red Engine, or why bother, the folder is empty....

What Red Launcher are you talking about? I have no such thing. Yes, there is an empty REDEngine folder, but that's it.

It's in the Steam version, not sure about other versions.
It allows you to launch wither and gwent, which is dumb, it force quits and obviously just reopens steam to launch the other app, IDK why anyone uses those. It also has news about the game etc, which you can see all the news in your steam library anyways.... So wtf is the point, and why install it to app data rather than the games dir?