That's Lazarus from it, Adult Swim trying to re-hash Watanabe Shinichirou's works without knowing why they worked, and ending up with something that borders self-parody made by ChatGPT.
Lazarus works on the structure that, at any point, they can finish the story in just two episodes, making the remaining episodes feel somewhat pointless and disconnected from one another, mostly existing to have some action scenes with no personal stakes that aren't even that interesting to begin with. It's structure feels less of an anime and more of a game of the Hitman franchise, with in most of it's episodes you learning almost nothing about it's plot, setting or characters.
It's setting, also, feels a bit weak, as it fails a lot at "show don't tell": Yes, we know that humanity may be doomed in one month because it's explicitly told to us... but if it wasn't, could you conclude that from what the anime shows us? Not a single character seemed to have change their lifestyle one single bit, save for one scene where a live-journal tells us that there are being riots somewhere and that the stock exchange crashed (Not that those things ever end up mattering, anyway). You could've changed the premise that the whole thing about Hapna being lethal was unknown to the general public and the plot would stay the same. One could think that such seeming discrepancy is intentional and is the show trying to tell some message via it but... I don't really think it is.
It feels like an inferior version of the Suicide Squad because, at the end of the day, what our characters are doing has no personal connection to them, it's not something that will make them have to come to with their past, the types of person they are nor something like that: They just got to do their job... and so they go there and do their job.
Cyberpunk and similar "dystopic sci-fi future" setting might be set in the future, but they're about talking about the present: Take an exaggerated problem in the future and use it to talk about a similar problem happening in the present, take a problem in the future and talk about it being a logical conclusion or extrapolation of a problem happening now or in the past, talk about the technology could be used to, instead of solving our problems, creating new ones or making the ones we have worse.
Lazarus does none of that, and it's social commentary is so bad that it feels it doesn't want to be there: When we learn about Doug being a victim of racism, it's the most generic type of racism possible, and one that essentially says nothing about the subject. It's like it's there only to fill a checkbox, and not because the person writing it cares about the subject. That same case of racism could've been in a story set in the present or in the 90's and it would need no changes to it. Same goes for the anime talking about homelessness or trans people, it's just saying "Oh yeah, homeless and trans people exist" without exploring nothing more of the subject or how the material conditions of it's society relate to it.
It ends up feeling that their view of Cyberpunk is "Woah, cool technology, and also humanity bad" rather than a study and reflection about society, it's systems and structures.
In the end, Lazarus just ends up being a pretentious "all style, no substance".
