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There are two tiers of side quests in cyberpunk. Gigs and full on side quests. The gigs are all pretty short ‘go to place, shoot / rescue someone’ stuff but the main side quests are generally more involved, including all the romance options etc.
The gigs can be skipped without missing much, but skipping the side quests misses a ton of story IMO.
And not just that, you're a mercenary. There's only so many types of tasks you get hired for. CDPR did a really great job differentiating gigs from eachother IMO.
Sure some of them are cookie cutter, but there's a story behind them and sometimes you can link that story into the overall world. Sometimes there's choices to make that impact the outcome. Usually there's multiple ways to approach it. And very few of them have the same layout.
There's 89 Gigs in the base game. I didn't at all feel ripped off that some of them are similar. I'd rather the gigs feel similar than have them encroaching on the side quests in feel.
Even the gigs have a thread running through them, though. You can puzzle together stories by doing them.