@Chaemera: I do think that's overly picky. In all cases, it's "use X in lieu of attributes." Sometimes X is other attributes, sometimes it's device ratings, sometimes it's program ratings, sometimes it's cyberlimb attributes.
Note the explanation leading up to the rule that you quoted:
In the Matrix, you leave your meat body behind and surf the wireless
world with your mind, your intellect, and the programs you carry. Your
attributes take a back seat to the programs (or complex forms) you run.
Even Mental attributes like Logic are feeble before a three-million-to-
one-or-better speed advantage and the need to compute thousands of
operations with every action taken. Ultimately your mind is simply
commanding your software and hardware to do things. You’re only as
good as the programs and systems you use.
Compare that to a cyberlimb, where your mind is likewise commanding your software and hardware to do things.
Let's look at the most obvious case of where this concept breaks down. Look at the Edit action on page 230. In a complex action, you can alter a second of video or audio. And your Computer + Edit test determines the quality of the change, the extent, and the complexity. So, a person with 1 Logic, 1 Intuition, 0 Artisan, 4 Computer and 6 Edit in HotSim VR can work as a professional CG artist.
The same can be said for RPG Game Designers with the RAW, Logic 1, Intuition 1, Artisan 0, Gaming Rules Knowledge 0, Publications Formating Knowledge 0, Computer 4, Edit 6, HotSim VR and you have Shadowrun 12th Edition.
You cut off my leg and I get a cyberlimb to replace it? Okay, using the cyberleg
makes sense. I log into a computer and my understanding of reality is now meaningless because programs can create better art than I can? No, sorry, that
doesn't pass the common sense test. I agree that it's RAW, it just doesn't make sense and is the only case where there isn't a
good reason why you suddenly ignore your attributes.
As I said previously, and you haven't countered, in every other case where you don't use your "natural" attribute, it is because something has, for a logical reason, replaced it. This is the one case where they say anything like "computers are fast, so ignore your attributes and use programs instead".
Is it a big enough deal to house-rule it? That's for each table to decide. But, no, programs are not analogous to cyberlimbs. I don't have to cut off my brain to access the matrix.
Furthermore, if the matrix "speed advantage" is so great that a person's logic is "feeble" (ignore the fact that we
wish computers were as fast as the mind and we are slamming hard into computer speed barriers set by the laws of physics), then how is it you're able to make logical decisions? It is contradictory to say that, on the one hand, interactions on the matrix are perceivable by the human mind in a way that rationale decision making is possible and then say that, because the matrix is
so fast that same rationale decision making process is no longer applicable when it comes time to roll the dice. By that reasoning, every user needs a Pilot program to decide how to behave, their mind can't keep up with the matrix.