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I've done a few attempts at doing Cyberpunk.
They run into problems.
The biggest one is something that happens to a lot of campaigns. People stop showing up on the regular so you can't plan on their role in the party.
The setting itself is a bit of a problem since most of the books are (were?) single protagonist and most games are multi-player.
But the biggest problem is the net-runner part.
First, too many friends knew that computers did not work that way, and would be stupid to make them work that way.
Even accepting that computers work that way, the guy with the deck gets their own mini-adventure while the rest of the party twiddles their thumbs.
The two most successful versions of it I ran didn't have the net-runner deal.
One was like combining Navy SEALS and Sneakers. It was fun, but the party got butchered by a competing team.
The other was having the party be cops in 2037 Des Moines. That worked shockingly well.
Doing a Shadowrunesque version with GURPS worked pretty well, and the reason computers worked like the fiction was magic computers are inherently so much faster and near unlimited storage as compared to silicon that the security shit you have to put up with is worth it.
That's the only time I've ever seen anyone try to explain why computers don't work like the real world.
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