It's a little different than that. This looks much more like they were intentionally misleading people, as they continued to push the narrative right up until the last Night City Wire episodes.
There are numerous bugs (I'm on PC with a good system and every time I've tried to play I see somebody floating, things flying around, NPC's going through walls, etc.), obviously cut content with loose & frayed ends where they tried to 'tie' it back together, horribly broken AI, lack of anything to do outside mission structure and the list goes on.
People have a right to be upset. This kind of anti-consumer BS is becoming all too common in the world, and given all of the other difficulties of the season, they aren't going to stand for it.