They cannot control expectation.
That's the problem with the clickbait/sensationalism that dominates "independent" media.
25k people watched this video (if we take view counts as individuals only):
Watching it gives you a pretty clear expectation of the game we actually have, if you do not extend what is said in it at all.
But the hype train continued on unabated and no doubt someone would have taken the modest statements of the above interview and hyped them, because hype gets clicks and generates income.
I recently went back and looked at the 2012 announcement, and looking at it I still don't feel the game is not what was promised back then. (That doesn't mean the game is perfect by any means, there are lots of things I'd like to see improved.) But from then on the hype train was unleashed.
Hell in this thread I've seen:
People talking about stats being merged - the game has the Cyberpunk 2020 stats except Empathy.
People using the 2018 video implying Johnny just died to justify the idea that Johnny was a minor character, despite the lore of the setting having him die in the 2020s - so clearly that was wrong from the start in the 2018 video.
Watching Youtubers respond to this (fake) leak and reading the comments (I know, I know) is just a further exercise in showing the hype-train running out of control again (it goes in both directions from the people that super want what is implied in this (fake) leak to the people still on the game sucks baggage cart).
CDPR has announced a patch in Jan and Feb, even that unleashed hype and people loading more and more ideas into what should be in those patches, more hype train.
All we can do is moderate our expectations, the only thing we have control over.
Giving in to "leaks" like this doesn't do ourselves any favours.