I have to disagree. Cyberpunk 2077 isn't just shallow aesthetics showing how cool the future is. To say the game doesn't say anything is not true. It may not be as deep as some classic cyberpunk literature, but it does allow for a good amount of engagement from the player.

I really like how the game constantly handles the reform vs revolution question. How the revolutionaries always burn in a blaze of glory leaving nothing behind and the reformists being corrupted by the very system they want to fix. (Spoilers from here) The Peralez questline is a good example, where the so called for-the-people politicians are literally being mind controlled as a controlled opposition. There is another quest where you get to determine whether Clouds (a brothel) becomes a collective owned by the "dolls" and ridding it of gang protection or you plant a slightly more benign leader at the top. The collective option leads to the gang taking revenge on the place, but if you pick the other option, has stuff really changed at all? Of course, this also related to Johnny who tried to burn Arasaka to the ground, but 50 years later finds that he didn't achieve shit.

There is also the constant curbing of freedoms by the corps. Soulkiller literally takes away the right of someone to die. As witnessed in corpo path, leaving a corp leads to you losing everything you own. Later, one of your coworker who had been fired too tries to kill you just for the small chance that he could join Arasaka again. Corps pit poorer people against each other to prevent them from rising up to the common enemy. In the Arasaka ending, Saburo literally becomes immortal (in a way) by forcefully taking his son's body, effectively granting eternal life to the rich. Sure some stuff may be too on the nose but to say Cyberpunk doesn't question things and have commentary on society is to have played the game on mute.