I think CD Projeckt having such good ethics in terms of community relations and not using microtransactions, etc, and giving really full expansions gives them a ton of goodwill, but as for the games? Not great so far for me, and that's as someone who's owned the Witcher 1 on disc since 2010, much the same complaints then as now. Great World building visually, but poor voice casting, lack of customisation, terrible combat.
I believe it started as a mod for Neverwinter Knights 2 if anyone else can remember that, and it felt like a mod more than a game. Ended up in the swamps with extremely boring and limited combat.
Witcher 2, massive hype, visually great, but had some terrible pacing and level design, had to force myself to complete it, again boring combat being the worst culprit. Felt like level were designed on the fly without much forethought by non professional designers like they were making a mod.
Somewhere between Witcher 2 and 3 the hype got insane, possibly even due to the Polish government getting involved. Witcher 3 is a good game overall, but if you don't like watching canned spinning animations x 100 each fight you're out of luck. Games like Dark Souls were leagues better at combat and customisation, and while different styles, both still both action RPGs.
Cyber Punk 2077 can amend a lot of those for me simply the create your own character and choose combat style aspect to it.