Isn't the Peripheral on Amazon Prime based on a Gibson story too?
https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0PE2SANXUROCEZ5W2FD7WGMM9R
Some of it was really frickin cool, and you can even feel some of William Gibson voice shine through into the world.
I probably want this to work more than anybody, but even for me the show was just unwatchable. So often the characters get nothing to do, nothing to say, it's nobody's job to create narrative momentum. It's just brutal.
That said, I'm still not deterred from wanting to watch necromancer just because I want that type of show to work. A show where technology isn't just window dressing, and there's real curiosity about how it impacts the world, and there's real imagination about how to extract original and interesting visual aesthetics from it.
The greatest credit I can give it is that it fails in an interesting way, and doesn't fail from lack of interest in source material. And I'd rather live in a world full of shows that fail in interesting ways than ones that successfully execute familiar and shallow "is technology bad?" themes over and over.
That's exactly how the books are. Cool concept, but there's barely any plot, nobody has any real motivation, things just happen to them.
And it's a legitimate criticism of the books. Fidelity to substance of the original is one thing, execution is another. I think the weaknesses of the books as transposed to film, combined with poor execution of craft are what make one different from the other.