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>it badly misrepresents the genre the game is supposedly about, which includes plenty of characters who are comfortable or friendly with cops and corps.
Neuronancer and the Sprawl trilogy is literally the seminal work of cyberpunk fiction, and it's protagonists are a schizo ex-military guy being manipulated by an advanced artificial intelligence trying to ascend to godhood, a degenerate hacker convinced to do the job because he needs a new set of organs to ruin with hard drugs and alcohol, a razorgirl mercenary, and in the final act a genetically engineered ninja bodyguard/assassin who is utterly loyal to the cloned heiress of a merged megacorp running a space station on the moon (sound familiar?)
the rule is dumb because somebody completely insulated from culture war nonsense, who's fresh off reading Neuronancer, would open this book up and he told "Uh, no, sorry, you're not allowed to play as Lady 3Jane, or Armitage, and actually not even Case or Molly Millions since they gladly took the ginormous payout from the gig and weren't really reluctant about it at all"
In Count Zero, one protagonist starts off as an amateur hacker and ends up being the boyfriend and bodyguard to a secondary protagonist (who started the book being implanted with experimental biotech letting her access cyberspace directly with her brain) who has literally become a famous idol/simstim star; far from "no corporate sympathies" they literally get a happily ever after chilling in a beach as wealthy celebrities after stopping the antagonist's plan to take over the world.

Every cyberpunk character doesn't and shouldn't need to be some active moral crusader; even low-life scumbags, opportunist assholes, and naive hopefuls have a place, the whole point of a crushing cyberpunk dystopia is that it doesn't matter what you believe, you're still gonna be crushed under the chrome-plated weight unless you do something to escape.

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