How is it really in 2025 compared to 2020?

Before you comment, I know the difference is night and day, but there's a catch and that's what I'm curious about.

As in:

Is it the same game it was in 2020 at the core (so, not like "the next New Vegas" that it was originally supposed to be), except with tons (and I mean tons) of mostly cosmetic updates (stuff like car customization, I guess, though this sounds really nice because I like cars and especially great driving physics), a few minor features you may or may not even notice (with the most notable one being the metro, I assume?) and, you know, now it's actually playable unlike in 2020 which was the absolute worst state a relevant game ever launched in, to the point that Sony themselves had to post an article in which they offered refunds to everyone who ever bought the game no matter what?

Or is it actually a properly different game, almost like what it was originally meant to be?

I kind of rushed through it in 2020 through Steam Family Share, hated it (it wasn't boring at all or anything, just extremely disappointing and frustrating, not to mention the state it launched in), now I'm desperate for something cyberpunk. I rewatched Blade Runner, one of my favorite movies, I miss Deus Ex so much (absolute perfection of a game in every aspect, one of the very best of all time without doubt) and after Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (same as what I said about Deus Ex, got 100% completion and enjoyed every single momeont of it, cannot praise it enough), I feel empty with nothing to play now, I already miss the game so much and now that Indiana Jones got the Alien: Isolation (another masterpiece which I beat at least a dozen times, 100% achievements several times, etc.), I realized I really want a Blade Runner game like that.

So...

Cyberpunk 2077, the most obvious thing that exists today.

Oh yeah, there is also path tracing on my new PC, it must look addicting to drive at night at all the highest possible settings. I just want a huge, open game where I can just drive around and enjoy simply being in that cyberpunk setting. I want to spend at least 100 hours, be really immersed in the whole thing, check every single little thing off the map and stuff like that. I love Deus Ex, Fallout, Resident Evil and so on, also the games mentioned above, that sort of stuff.

Anyway, to finally end this absolute mess of a post, most of which is probably pointless and nonsensical rambling since I'm too tired and bored at the moment...

How is it, really?

Thanks in advance.