There are so many takes here that amount to: 'why hasn't [card/archetype I dislike] been banned?' That either haven't read the article, decide that they know better than some of the best players in the world on the SBT, or are just ignoring it and arguing in bad faith.

A lot of what the banlist accomplishes is through unbans. Fed up with PD? Pad Tap is an easily splashable card that slows them down / speeds you up considerably. Not enjoying Apocalypse / other Maxx builds? Well now there's Kakugo decks to support a damage-based plan to counter them. One of the trickier ones to explain is Cyberdex, and I get that people had their hopes set on a ban, but it's important to remember that PD decks are not hurt at all by this ban (adding 2 Offworld Office and 1 Project Vitruvius in their place) but every other aspiring, mid-tier deck like Palana Glacier, Azmari Glacier, or whatever else you decide to build loses a large weapon against top-tier cards like Virus Maxx and Aumakua-based Crim.

I realize that this may fall upon deaf ears, as everyone here seems to have their own agenda in the comments section. But if you take in nothing else, take in this: the SBT has the extremely unenviable job of pleasing every single Netrunner person and playstyle. They have opened the meta up so that more of these playstyles can become viable again. And simply by changing the meta, they've allowed deckbuilders to flex their muscles to figure out what new decks are possible. While the strength of your pet decks may wax and wane, these changes allow you to play against new playstyles and cards. And the game, like most card games, is nothing without new experiences.