I got to play a hacker at BBC and when we got to the part where it came to the matrix I did kind of feel like everyone else was left sitting on their hands. That said it was only like two or three moves (as opposed to the private-combats of say Shadowrun) so it didn’t occupy any more screen time then the plots Infiltrator or Pusher were getting up to.
I haven’t gotten the chance to play it outside of a convention setting so I unfortunately don’t know how much the lack of non-job content becomes an issue.