The quickhack system is not stealth gameplay—it is not hacking—it is remote execution presented as a power fantasy.

It works because the game has already convinced you that your targets stopped being people the moment they accepted augmentation.

When you ping an enemy's cyberware and execute a quickhack—forcing them to shoot themselves, to fall, to seize—you are not outthinking an opponent. You are exploiting a protocol, and the enemy has no counterplay, no dodge, no last-second awareness that saves them.

The game calls this "intelligence" when you do it; it calls the same thing "recklessness" when they do it to you. You don't use quickhacks on the unaugmented because the system won't let you—and this is not a limitation but the argument itself: augmentation is consent to be treated as a compromised system. Every ripper doc visit, every kiroshi implant, every military-grade neural link is a door you've left open in your own code.

You are not winning through skill or strategy because the architecture of the world has made consciousness itself a tradeable vulnerability—and the game's most celebrated builds, the quickhack infiltrator, require zero combat skill. The system asks: what happens to human autonomy when your own body becomes publicly readable code?