You may be right, it’s just frustrating as a consumer to get the co-worker update, and then many instances of reclaimation, the controversy with the facial expression in the gym, back to the animated scene within the mafia arc, and so on. For the way it's going, the "risky stuff" really loses it's punch for a lot of people (including myself) when you're constantly re-assured and hand-held, even to the point where retroactive changes have been made to neuter the effect.
I truly believe there’s a way to play the middle ground, but now that we’re moving into subscriber-suggested wish fulfilment with the Reveries and all, I’m just really not confident that the NTS will remain intact. If past history tells us anything, I don’t know that Saxx can remain strong on some of the guardrails that’d be need to be respected to not have the game devolve into sharing and other things that cater to a more vanilla expression of "NTS" that we’re already inundated with from AI slop. I hope that explains the frustration you're seeing from some people.