Actually, that IS relevant, and you forget something.Yep, not really relevant
But corpos wouldn't need to buy the chip off Evelyn. They could have some victim pay for the "Save your soul" program (the version of it when you remain alive after the procedure) and get it "legally" from Arasaka. A cleaner way, it seems (if they're interested in the technology behind it, I mean).
According the plan Evelyn lined up, she'd be in possession of the chip after you'd acquire it from the heist. So Evelyn would be the sole contact from who anyone would be interested in buying the chip.
Also, if you forgot, Saburo commisioned the Relic 2,0 for himself. Hellman says that, together with the fact the chip was never emant to come onto the market for anyone. Yorinobu stole it from his father/Arasaka to sell it off (I believe it was) but if that didn't happen, the chip was never gonna be a mass produced high-end piece of tech for anyone.
I've read through some of your posts where you explain stuff as if a plothole or otherwise inconsistent, some I can relate to, but most of it is also you brushing off events or communicae's that explain or show that wrenches were thrown in and thus altering course of what the original plan/timeline for events would have been. So most 'plotholes' are a design of your own making.
And as far as a punchline is concerned... why must there be one?
The sum up of the story ends primarily in a dark place.
Which btw I've voiced plenty of times my issues with (see "about the endings" topic, some 300 pages back or whatever)
but what punchline were you expecting or hoping for?
It's a social commentary about how easy you can get into trouble after aplying for a job.
Or something like that.
The punchline is luring people into shallowly assuming there'll be any other punchline beyond 'you die'. Which personally I find funny as ****.
The futility of trying. Not only will you always fail but spending hours building a character is futile as the game will invalidate based on a mission choice
You'll hate me for saying this (we know we disagree on the endings), but the other way of looking at that is that it's more important how you live the journey than to worry about how it ends. Which I do sincerely think is half the point of all the philosophical conjecture littered around the game and very heavily informs its endings.
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Well if you were allowed to live what's left of the character's journey in a fitting way to the character choices you made before, maybe i'd come round to view it in a glass half full, rather than glass very empty take.
You have to either accept your time remaining or make yourself a legend by wiping out Arasaka.
Or you become an immortal digital ghost with Alt Cunningham.
The punchline is easy...
No matter what you do, what you have, how powerful you get, you're STILL gonna wind up dead eventually.
"A happy ending ? For people like us? in Night City ? Don't dream, V !"