lordgizka: Wowzers, you guys are genuinely evil, in a concrete sense of the word:)
Graphical downgrade was an inevitability, because PS4/XB. This happened with Witcher 3, and most certainly will happen to this game. The fact that the next-gen consoles are close muddles the issue though, so who knows. Worst case scenario - Cyberpunk's port on the new systems will be the best one graphically. Sony and Microsoft got money to throw around.
As for CDPR and all the "gender" crap - blame the marketing team and maybe higher management. They are not smart enough to get that "these" people aren't going to buy the game, they are just being little shits and trying to feel powerful.
And as a general reminder: if you yourself are going after emotionally weak people on the Internet, it's likely you are scared to stand up to someone IRL, but don't want to admit it to yourself. As a different perspective: when a child throws a tantrum, people don't generally murder them, maybe beat them up a little...
Don't worry, lordgizka, I have no plans on applying the above hypothetical on anyone. I'm not genuinely evil, just a mad scientist with a lot of weltschmerz en cynicism, which gives me an affinity for twisted thought experiments ;)
I agree that management and marketing are probably to blame for the GG (gender gate :p ), but I wouldn't put it past them to still end up forcing it through final release.
I'm not sure that your reminder can be applied in general, though it certainly holds for some. But I can think of plenty of people who seek out vulnerable targets online despite considering themselves above all others IRL too, as well as people who are too scared to stand up to anyone online and IRL, and people who seek out vulnerable people online even though they are fully aware that they are too scared to stand up for themselves IRL... So I'd say your reminder is more a possibility, than the rule.
As for murdering badly behaved babies... Do you think natural selection would eventually lead to babies who don't throw tantrums, if people were less wuss about protecting them? ...Just another hypothetical ;p