The opening of your post made me think of a scifi writing prompt where, in a dystopic future, people are paying mega tech-corporations thousands of dollars per month to replace their meat brain with a subpar artificial one just to become more productive corporate ~~slaves~~workers.

It seems to me that once things like Neuralink start being used for more than strictly restoring functionality in injured or disabled individuals -- once there's a competitive advantage to have one -- it'll quickly become an arms race.