Open a public relations firm
Start a communist rebellion
Pretend to build a socialist utopia
Do DNA tests of random people to make sure they aren't alien infiltrators
Undermine said anti-alien efforts by selling gene mods because capitalism
Watch a Michael Bay movie
Lead an attack on a UFO crash site
Help a trillionaire build an orbital death ray
Overengineer a spaceship with the help of 20 other players
Join the secretive military organization known only as P.A.T.R.I.O.T. and use all of that advanced training and technology to punch robots in the face
Things i can actually do in a cyberpunk setting:
Mug people on the streets
Incrementally upgrade my stats
Pretend to fight capitalism by embracing capitalist values
Watch the rain fall and wonder why writers keep using the same tired tropes over and over
The genre's oldest works featured whimsical stuff such as checkers, chess, thermonuclear warfare, friend computers, feudal japanese warriors, murderbots that pretend to be human and an internet that fries your brain if you misbehave.
The world we live in includes frightening things such as fascist disinformation, resurgent communists, citizen scores, meme stocks, and a real-life james bond villain who calls himself Elon Musk. These things are free real estate for writers and yet all we ever get is grey drab melodramas that flow like tears in the rain