... it is numbers flying off people's heads and bodies.

Hmm, definitely not something I would imagine about in a game like Cyberpunk... Like, hey, that's something that appears in all the games that I play that involve damage, but Cyberpunk... that feels weird.

And I'm not sure about the shooting from stealth thing. In Honkai Impact 3's APHO content, if you do a stealth attack (meele only, sadly), it does a time-slow effect and lands your attack in a pretty heavy hit with some amazingly large number, which even if it doesn't instantly finish off an enemy you'll have that "gotcha" feeling and start the fight with some advantage brought by that first strike.

(which honestly doesn't help in some cases if you are surrounded a few seconds later.)

Can't really do a direct compare, but it does sound like Cyberpunk's stealth attack mechanic doesn't make a lot of sense lol.

The game does look very beautiful from your screenshots, and luckily (?) it doesn't seem to be too terrible from your conclusion! Not to say that I'm going to play it (I don't have a computer powerful enough for it), but looks like it's not as bad as everyone else says so. The initial launch of the game did screwed up everything... but well, seems like it's still an okay game in the end?