I'm sure there's room for improvement but I fired up the game yesterday to check how much it changed and I didn't see a massive change. Perhaps it's a bit better, but nothing close to what people expected or what we experience in other games. Frankly, the bugs, the systems, the AIs, and the game breaking in different places after every major update really makes me wonder if any DLCs are even possible in a short time frame. A few additions, like a weapon or a few cars, shouldn't be an issue but a whole expansion that adds missions to the game? Not anytime soon. And I'm not saying it because I'm angry and bitter and wish them to fail. It's just the current state of events. Adding a massive DLC a year or two after the release doesn't strike me as a reasonable business idea, especially if the game doesn't have legendary status and it's widely replayed by many. I'm sure a lot of people still have fun with Cyberpunk and will continue playing but how many will get back to the game just to play a DLC? Especially if a DLC will be released in 2022? Or 2023?
Of course, I have no doubt that CDPR will manage and they will fix the game in months (perhaps) or a year from now and It will be a good, pleasant experience but nothing groundbreaking. The systems will be improved but won't be changed or totally rewritten. We can count on a few dialog lines and additional choices here and there but they won't alter the outcome. I have that sense it might be just a window dressing more or less and tons of backend work.
Therefore it's not stupid to assume that if cyberpunk is supposed to be a widely beloved franchise, a sequel would be a way to go. Instead of fixing and reversing bad decisions made during the production to start anew. I'm sure CDPR learned a lot working on CP2077 and can't wait for the new project to improve upon this knowledge. A lot of people mentioned No man Sky and Fallout 76 but how many of you actually got back to those games? I personally never did after the release. I HEARD that they are good and that's about it. Instead, I'm more interested in the next, fresh titles.
Yeah, Cyberpunk didn't turn out very well. It's not the promised second coming of Christ for the gaming world but overall... a good game. Sometimes not great, sometimes very poor in execution, sometimes reusing 10 years old solutions, but a good experience. It's fun. It will always be a good game but ONLY a good game. The sequel has a chance to be a great one. I do hope that this very expensive and enormously stressful experiment was also a learning experience. The only thing that CDPR can do right now is to ascend from it and there's no better way than release a new jaw-dropping game, even if a smaller one, without the full-blown living and breathing city. Otherwise, they will be known as "those guys who are still patching the thing" months after the release.