I'm enjoying it quite a bit!
It's the infiltrations that keep me playing. Here's an area/building with a lot of security, here's a bunch of tools you can use, here's a set of characters with a few additional tools, now see if you can get the mission done. There's always multiple ways in, giving it a little 'immersive sim' feel.
The missions to get people on your side are pretty random all right, but they seem to be pulling from a grab-bag of decent missions and it gives the people some personality to start with. They immediately drop the personality, of course, as the voice acting needs would quickly go insane if they had to record scores of characters' reactions to every single mission, but I still remember that the hacker girl that can turn drones against their owners also has a crazy theory about mind controlling fungus.
I haven't found much use for money yet, other than clothing. I'm enjoying having people just wear their normal street cloths, though. Got some fist fighting that needs to be done? I've recruited a middle aged woman in a skirt, overcoat, and pumps that can dish out and take extra damage to take care of that!
BTW, are London streets really that crazy? Having grown up in a very grid-like city, the roads of London seem like somebody just dropped some spaghetti on the ground and put roads wherever the landed! The navigation path feature is a must for this game, at least for me. Driving on the left side isn't that bad, but all those one-way streets!? Aarrgh!! I think I'll turn on autopilot and look for potential recruits while it drives.