I mean. At the surface level a conical hat being out of place in a cyberpunk city IS exactly what this author is saying, and common in the history of the cyberpunk genre.

But at a deeper level I actually think these devs know that, and I think they know about more problems that others may pick up on and write about if they only do a surface-level analysis. I believe that it was intentional to include these hats knowing they're typical of the genre and I believe that the choice to make it less-bad by making all the characters robots doing a poor imitation of humanity is probably a conscious decision by the devs.

I actually think the level of thought the devs are on here is that the cyberpunk genre itself is tropey, full of caricature and a poor imitation of humanity. The game is really dense with detail and I find that the more corners I look in the more things I might find.

Also I'm convinced that