I wonder if the designers of the White Wolf games got equally butthurt that almost everyone used Storyteller for Trenchcoat-and-Katana Supers.
As the butthurt storygamer/wannabe novelist who wrote the above, that's my point, and I specifically mention WW later on. The play that people latch onto at tables is often quite different than designers intended when they started writing the thing.
I'm the biggest fucking fan of Cyberpunk there is, starting from the day the Big Black Box hit my shelves, and over the years I've owned every sourcebook and run years worth of campaigns, and I've read shitloads of stuff by all of the people involved. Hell, start by looking at the recommended references. Cyberpunk was all about heart and rebellion, according to the books, but what a lot of people used it for was different. That's my sole point.
Now, butthurt overly defensive gamers who don't know their shit may choose to argue with me because they perceive some kind of new front opening in their timeless bullshit battle against storygamers, but since that is largely something occurring in their imaginations, I don't need to respond to it, anymore than I'd want to address somebody else's tinfoil hat paranoid fantasies.