Honestly, if we look at IRL, the Virtual Adepts have basically hopelessly split.
Half of them have basically gone corporate and mainstream, and that's where your Googles and your Facebooks come from - the Virtual Adepts were won over by the Syndicate. Hell, the Virtual Adepts might even have reformed as a Convention, so many of them have gone corporate. The Syndicate bought them with public buyouts and "you'll get to work within the system to get space flight commercially available" and "seriously, so much money here, do you want to be a billionaire?". And then other Virtual Adepts got snapped up by the New World Order and joined the NSA as cover placements by the Watchers.
And then of the remaining Traditions half, they're also fractured between the left-wing anti-corporate anti-authoritarian pro-cryptography anti-NSA lot (who might be considered to be the "classic" VAs), and the new wave of the new-right populist trolls (who are the direction action Virtual Adepts who are very, very bitter and angry).
Ironically, in their success it doomed the Virtual Adepts of the 90s. They won to a massive degree unlike any other Tradition, getting their ideas incredibly mainstream - but the cost of winning is that the tensions within the Adepts proved unmanageable. The faction of the Adepts who were like "We've won... shit, we don't want anyone ruining us, not when we know we're so close to getting mind-state uploads" became the Man, who dresses in business casual and wears wacky shirts on Fridays and reads all your emails so they can sell the information. And the anti-authoritarian Adepts who didn't sell out realised that they were hopelessly split between left and right - and neither side liked each other enough to actually fight for them, even if they both hated the Google sell-out corporate VAs.
