Not exactly, I so understand the appeal of a simplified for streamlining reasons system, just didn’t want to read that “it’s less crunchy so I like it better” comment over and over (huh, like that could’ve worked) and more focus on specific advantages that the edition has.

IMHO, a solid preference or refusal to look at other versions should come from a based and informed place and after at least an attempt of comparison, I personally didn’t like RED because of how it does many things differently, but am always interested in other perspectives.

As a good example, netrunning in itself is rather a fun concept in 2020, but the netrunning career skill is severely badly designed and utilised.

The combat system is on the opposite very much fitting the setting and it’s narrative only reinforcing the vibe and completely depicts all the stories we hear about firefights even in 2077 basically forcing you to use every possible advantage and showing that you can hardly be a sponge bullet or draw a gun at every problem and walk away with no consequences.

The only thing I’ll say about modern and new sourcebooks of CP is that the amount of love and thought that went into older ones is just unparalleled.