It might be because cyberpunk was The Future and people are still trying to do it as a retro-looking-future - the better to explain the tech - than going "the 90s had working VR why not" like steampunkers do.
Yeah, that seems such an obvious AH thing to do. (Wikipedia tells me a Chilean writer did a Cybersyn AH but I don't believe it's translated)
‘Cybersyn but all of Britain is controlled by it’
Yeah, that seems such an obvious AH thing to do. (Wikipedia tells me a Chilean writer did a Cybersyn AH but I don't believe it's translated)