Because it’s incredibly tacky cyberpunk that is simultaneously far too serious and incapable of taking itself remotely seriously, there’s latent transphobia everywhere, especially among people claiming to be magic, all the tech that does anything you actually want it to is pretty explicitly based on magic, and there is absolutely comprehensively verifiably zero hope.
Because it’s incredibly tacky cyberpunk that is simultaneously far too serious and incapable of taking itself remotely seriously, there’s latent transphobia everywhere, especially among people claiming to be magic, all the tech that does anything you actually want it to is pretty explicitly based on magic, and there is absolutely comprehensively verifiably zero hope.
(See meme downthread)