Cyberpunk was meant to be a cautionary tale. Cutting away healthy body parts and replacing them with machines to create a profane mockery of the natural form. There are often consequences to this, either becoming dependent on anti-rejection drugs or the risk of going insane from your mind screaming that your body is all wrong. All in service to soulless consumerism. Keeping up with the Jonses with a body horror aspect. Speaking of body horror, that's just cybernetics. Fleshcrafting is typically portrayed as innately evil in fiction. A robot arm is a robot arm, but grafted tentacles or claws or anything organic is abominable.
Cyberpunk was meant to be a cautionary tale. Cutting away healthy body parts and replacing them with machines to create a profane mockery of the natural form. There are often consequences to this, either becoming dependent on anti-rejection drugs or the risk of going insane from your mind screaming that your body is all wrong. All in service to soulless consumerism. Keeping up with the Jonses with a body horror aspect. Speaking of body horror, that's just cybernetics. Fleshcrafting is typically portrayed as innately evil in fiction. A robot arm is a robot arm, but grafted tentacles or claws or anything organic is abominable.
At least the cautionary tales had cool tech, neon lights, and grizzled cyborg detectives.
Our dystopia is just the shitty part of cyberpunk.