I wish there were more entries in the Cyberpunk genre.

One could argue that it's overplayed, unrealistic, whatever. But I really do feel like there's so much missed potential and capabilities that go into a game, novel, or other media like this.

You're telling me that there's a world people can live in where bodily flesh is not only a commodity, but is almost certainly owned by a corporation?

And the most anyone ever does with it is have two dimensional thoughts, occasionally rebel against "the system," be more than half human, and live entirely surrounded by vices, taking none of them?

I think total recall and blade runner are okay as far as the cyberpunk genre goes, but they should have been the starting point, not the Magnum Opus.

All it would need is a single competent writer to make a couple of three dimensional characters, morally conflicted and deeply strange having grown up in a world where your every whim is driven by base impulses, greed, and escapism. I absolutely refuse to believe that the only thought someone growing up like that would be

"oh gee, I can't wait to end my horrible life sucking 32 hour shift destroying what's left of the already fucked world to pass by every narcotic, cybernetically enhanced prostitute, VR reality escape, restaurant serving extinct animals, human trafficker, lobotomized miscellaneous vendor, mega-corperation literally selling immortality, AI therapist, government overlord to my 2 square meter "apartment" with no amenities without a second thought, coping mechanism, maladaptive impulse, or side affects of literal corporate brainwashing. Who knows, I might kill a CEO some point in the next 15 years."

It's fucking lame! Like seriously, how are you going to have a setting this rich, utterly morally bankrupt, tragic and completely unreasonable and then not explore a single fucking facet of it? What conceptual thought leads them to think "And then they all lived in the worst version of earth possible, not engaging in a single part of it because Mary Sue would never, and they all died following their fucking dreams of all things, tragically claimed by an uncaring future."

Utterly unrealistic. If it's punk, shit goes wrong because humans are fallible, as is the entirety of the case for this brand of punk. Humans are greedy, manipulative, uncaring and addiction-prone, it's the entire concept of the world around them. I want to explore it, and it breaks my fucking heart that the reality of it never sets in. Nobody in real life can reasonably follow their dreams, why is this different? Why have none of them ever expressed a want for anything other than the purest of intentions? I want an anti-hero! Where the fuck is my actual anti-hero! Give me a morally bankrupt protagonist please!