Here's Spawn Wave's video on the subject:
As he himself points out it's very likely the whole "outcry from gamers" thing CDP is talking about is more likely "mainland China threatened to not approve Cyberpunk 2077 for sale in that country if Devotion was put on GOG." The devs behind the game have stated they're still looking into avenues to get Devotion back up for sale since it's likely never returning to Steam or ever coming to GOG due to both Valve and CD Projekt wanting to still do business in mainland China, though I admit I'm unsure who they could turn to at this point.