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GTA V has quests with decisions and lets you make a few ending altering decisions, while also having character progression and item progression, plus let's you roleplay being a criminal, would it be called an RPG by most people standards? Hardly.
Although I'd say CP2077 is not an RPG by the usual standard, I agree that the game borders the concept. Actually, I'd say most games that have a player character do border the real foundational concept of a "Role-playing Game", however, that's not how most people classify RPGs as videogames. For a videogame to be an RPG we understand that they need to pursue those elements wholeheartedly. And that's definitely not the case for CP2077 (also not for Monster Hunter, nor Souls).
Also, the source material being a TRPG means absolutely nothing. Vampire the Masquerade Bloodhunt's source material is the TRPG Vampire The Masquerade. Is the game an RPG then? No, it's a Battle royale. Pathfinder Gallowspire Survivors is a mob-hell/vampire survivor-like game, not an RPG either. Actually, this is even worse for CP2077 because the game takes almost nothing but the setting from the Cyberpunk TRPG.