I played a Hacker in one of Hamish Cameron’s games at GenCon last year and….yeah, while I was in the Matrix, everybody else sat on their hands. But, unlike virtually every other cyberpunk rpg I’ve played, it wasn’t a problem. It was just another way that the spotlight moved around, no different than any other time that happens in any PbtA game.

So, while the “problem” still exists, because of how PbtA games are much more deft at switching between PoVs than trad games are, the “problem” is not really a problem at all.