That is only half the story. He didn’t lose eyesight from it at first. But the wound wouldn’t heal because the guy didn’t shower and so it kept getting infected, until he lost his eyesight. All according to his ex-girl friend.

I mean that is every cyberpunk scenario from its very inception.

How the fuck is it not? If you have been following developments, these oligarch techbros are basically the US government, they are crashing the economy for their shortsighted profit and complete control over the consumer electronics market via cartels, causing rising prices on everything, not to mention they are using their tech for dystopian things like palantir, surveillance and other autocratic things.