What did Cyberpunk 2020 want to really model?

According to a conversation posted in TBP:

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Cyberpunk wanted to model Case and Molly making love in a coffin hotel, it wanted to model Michael Pare and Diane Lane kissing under a street lamp, and it wanted to model some guy welded into his car becoming more inhuman as he quested for revenge while the Knight Sabers hunted him down. But it didn't make that imperative in the game, possibly because it didn't know how, and the emergent play that resulted is the Nakitomi theft from Die Hard and the Sense/Net run, over and over again.

I call bullshit. I don't see anything at all in its core about being that. I see rules for firefights, cyberdecking, etc. Hell, I don't even see what is being claimed above in the fluff surrounding it.

Am I blind?

What did Cyberpunk 2020 want to really model?