Right but I guess my point is that re-exploring and re-contextualizing those ideas for a modern audience has a place in carrying the torch. Cyberpunk 2077 gave

Right but I guess my point is that re-exploring and re-contextualizing those ideas for a modern audience has a place in carrying the torch. Cyberpunk 2077 gave me strong Akira vibes from the character aesthetics and the scenery is what I imagine the sprawl would look like. This can be fine as long as the story can carry it's own points and isn't just regurgitation as you put it. This however, remains to be seen. So far I think Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Detroit Become human do the best job of re-contextualizing and extending cyberpunk ideas for a modern audience along with Ghost in the Shell SAC and 2nd Gig as a little earlier on works. I think if you differ too far from the original ideas you're not in Cyberpunk anymore and now you've entered into a new genre. Perhaps that is appropriate, just not if you're trying to make a Cyberpunk work imo because necessarily they must share some core ideas from the original works to remain in the genre. That said this makes it a very fine line to walk between a work that makes points of its own drawing from the original works and derivative crap.