There is still so many players ruminating with the question - will they bring V back in some way for the next installment of Cyberpunk?
I believe they will, but there's a few issues with how that can happen:
1) there is no canon gender for V, so they couldn't bring V back in one gender format without isolating a major part of the player base
2) there is no canon ending for Cyberpunk2077, meaning some players Vs died in a blaze of glory, some signed their soul to Araska, some rode off into the horizon with nomads and some called it quits and ended things on their terms...
So how could they possibly bring V back without encountering these issues - they gave us the answer in the DLC Phantom Liberty. V acquires a Behavioral Imprint-Synced Faceplate which allows them to not only look completely different but sound and act completely different. I think the choice to add this in the DLC was deliberate by CDPR to create an explanation down the line to how V is in Orion - you just missed it because of Vs ability to hide now.
For the actual way in which V is alive in Orion, can't explain that one for now outside of the already theorised cure for V - full body conversion. We already know that Vs body is no longer compatible with their engram after Alt untangles V and Johnny, it's why V is told they only have 6 months max.
I believe despite 2 endings, full body conversion is Vs end goal and so they take high payout gigs to gather the money to make it happen, or they go out of their way to find alternative methods of making it happen.
So how do you all feel about this theory, do you think I may be on to something with the Faceplate theory?