The other problem with updating it is that the future it was predicated on is mostly lost in mainstream.
Sure, the Sprawl trilogy has looming megacorporations, but fundamentally the Matrix is still a democratic, standardized, and free communication medium, open to use by all. Those megacorporations are simply islands in a much more vast net.
In contrast, modern computing reality is much more defined by walled gardens: Apple+Android devices, Meta, Microsoft Office, Discord.
To the extent that "doing what you want in the dangerous corners of the net" is an alien concept to younger folks.
Sure, the Sprawl trilogy has looming megacorporations, but fundamentally the Matrix is still a democratic, standardized, and free communication medium, open to use by all. Those megacorporations are simply islands in a much more vast net.
In contrast, modern computing reality is much more defined by walled gardens: Apple+Android devices, Meta, Microsoft Office, Discord.
To the extent that "doing what you want in the dangerous corners of the net" is an alien concept to younger folks.