I'm 10 or so hours in and have stolen high tech from a corporation (cool), resurrected a dead terrorist (possibly cool, still don't know his motivations), and drive-by-hacked various cops' cyberware while travelling the city (funny).
Outside of that, the side content seems to be entirely social services oriented. Batman the cyberpsychos. Judge Dredd the crimes in progress. Ambulance a guy to a doctor. Social Worker a cop having a mental breakdown. Chat to various people. Is there some sort of "do cool crimes" set of side content that I've missed, or did CDPR just make another sheriff sim?
in later parts of the game you get a quest where you kidnap a manager on behalf of a worker's union. there is a factory/warehouse thing near the same location where you could kill a ton of corpo security guards who murdered many other striking workers. that said, there aren't that many pure class conflict based quests in the game. after the prologue, you don't really have to work with the cop fixer (or even before, its all side quests); she makes you spy on the Soviets
the politics are a million times better than any Ubisoft games (Far Cry 5 politics 🤮) but still kinda meh. idk play Disco Elysium or smthn.