There's no denying they made a mistake not delaying it again. There's no denying they'd get tons of shit had they done that as well. There's no denying the performance on last gen consoles is a big problem, there's also no denying delaying/dropping those versions and just giving us PC now/for good would have resulted in an outcry, too. There's no denying this is all problems of their own making, they set dates, they decided to target Jaguar CPUs instead of just PC and next-gen. I think they're learning hard lessons from this but they're already proving they still top other companies... why? Well... first off... name a company that hasn't put out a game this bad? Not many to name, right? So, among those companies who have had abysmal launches... how many offered unconditional refunds? How many got as much support as this has already gotten and is promised to get? The list narrows doesn't it?
That said, look at Nintendo... they delayed Metroid Prime 4 indefinitely because it didn't meet their standards. They were praised for it, that said... if Cyberpunk came out and told us this game isn't meeting their standards of quality and they need possibly as much as 6 more months... would people be as receptive? I would say no, there's a lot of hype on this and you can just look back at Twitter when they delayed it a single month to Dec 10th, the people running CDPR's twitter had a lot to deal with in the fallout over that, whether nor not people were cooler about it here (I'd need to check) isn't really as important, their direct line to fans was where the got swarmed over a single month delay. Delay enough and who knows, you could end up with the problem TLOU II had with leaks... oh wait... this did have leaks? Nevermind. It's a pretty toxic and entitled time for the industry, I hope CDPR can come out of this okay on the other side. I hope a year from now the game runs smooth as butter on PS5s, Series X's and PCs and has great free DLC alongside amazing paid DLC and the conversation is about how it rivals Witcher III instead of comparing it to the Anthems and Mass Effect Andromedas of this world. It'd be nice to see because beneath the issues is a pretty great game... is it all that was hyped? Maybe not, but there isn't much discussion on that right now and it'll be nice when it can happen more.