On this point you're 100% correct.
We all know there will be LOTS of combat, I only hope it's not the primary focus of the game, but as you point out the skill lists certainly indicate otherwise.
It'll be like Fallout 4, in which dialogs options only mattered about who you were gonna have to shoot next (untill proved otherwise).
They make everything combat related, expect a shooter with "rpg" elements (like, being able to say "maybe" and customize your shirt and choose a few perks), modern RPG/FPS.
It'll most likely be a good game, but expect mainly a FPS with lots of gunfights and explosions.
Just like in the 2018 demo, seemingly, you can friend with the Maelstorms, but I figure, then, the Corp won't be happy and... You'll have to fight against the Militech's corp forces.
They don't fill your pockets with explosives only to look cute, mostly that you're "immortal", so heh...
CDPR wants to sell their games to a big audience (Keanu isn't free, he even said he never play game, so I guess he didn't signed for the sake of art lol), people love and want violence.
Look how people care more about the guns animation and recoil than the actual RP, so, don't fool yourself.
They want to shoot a big gun, run on walls and cut some other people with a monoblade katana with a cool story playing in background.
Same could be said about movies.
Cyberpunk could have dealed with some deep social critics and less "guns", a more "2020" approach, a dark and grim future in which you don't want to take some vacations, but people would've complained it's too dark "and think about our kids" (even if the game is rated R).
Look at the movies Joker vs John Wick.
Joker shows you the "travel" from a tortured man, in a fucked up society, to the point he snaps and start to do some crazy shit
(I saw it, it's more "socially violent" than an actual display of graphic violence, it's pretty good btw). But people rant about it "too violent", "you can't show us this", etc...
When actually the violence is more about how crazy the world can be when you push people to the edge and give them the tools to do so (guns, class-war, rich stepping on the lower class's face, etc...), replace Joker by Johnny Silverhand back from the pan-american's war and you have the same shit.
He just started an hardcore band and did some terrorist actions against big corps instead of becoming Joker.
Now, John Wick, it's a superhero
(and, it's really made like a model to follow, almost) which find it legitimate to kill hundreds of people violently, using guns and other awfull technics simply because... they killed his dog.
So, there, ultraviolence and stabbing people to death with a pen is justified, it's even celebrated like if it's a cool thing to do, people even said "Don't give a pen to Johnny Silverhand".
Cyberpunk 2020 was Joker.
I think Cyberpunk 2077 will be John Wick.
I can be wrong tho, but that's the feeling I have from how they market the game.
It's a "cool" fest, celebrating big guns, corporate ads and use of violence.
While originaly, maybe it's me, but it was more aimed in a... "disgusted" side of it.
So yeah "we don't want to take a side, grab a gun, shoot and judge by yourself"