It's hard for me to take this author seriously when the author makes it painfully clear that a) they don't read books and b) they don't know anything about the genre or its roots.
I'd also argue that Cyberpunk does not mean "everything is terrible", nor does Post-Cyberpunk have a softer and lighter view where "not everything is terrible." Rather, the difference is whether social control is rooted in 1984 or Brave New World.
From this point of view, Ghost in the Shell and Minority Report are still Cyberpunk (edit: settings); the viewer is just seeing things from a point of view other than the completely marginalized. Shadowrun is a Cyberpunk setting whether you work for a corporate power or in the streets.
Many years ago I commenter on Slashdot gave his (or her, don't remember) take on the movie ending and since then I had to completely re-evaluate the whole thing.
The film is now old, but...
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When Tom Cruise's is captured they put the "halo" containment device on him. If you remember, when they did the same to the guy who attempted to murder his wife at the start of the movie, he asked, understendably worried, what would happen to him, and the policeman answered something like "you will just dream what you want to dream".
Ok, now consider that everything that happens from the moment that Cruise was arrested until the end is... a device-induced dream. He was framed for murder, and... he just spends his life (or an untold number of years) in confinment - but he dreams the whole ending. Over and over...
This blew me away. Especially because it could hardly be more Dickian than this, while at my first watching the ending was too damn sugary/optimist/Hollywood for my tastes.
Even with this interpretation, the ending would be completely at odds with PKD's story. In the story, Anderton (Cruise's character in the movie) wants the system to work; the conspiracy wants to undermine Precrime. Because Anderton wants Precrime to go on, he actually commits the crime he was accused of(he indeed shoots his victim), thus showing the world Precrime works. Notice how the message of the movie is "Precrime is wrong" while the message of the story is "Precrime must go on" :)
I will grant, this movie interpretation does make it more Dickian than the more common one. It is still a different message than the story.
Also it would be wrong because, besides being dystopic scifi, it has very little to do with cyberpunk.
Minority Report wasn't a very cyberpunk movie either.