“This surgery is highly invasive, and having electrodes pierce the brain causes inflammation and scarring, which over time makes the implant less effective. To replace an implant, a patient would need to undergo another invasive procedure and have a different part of their brain pierced.”
Sounds like it’s not soup yet. ๐

....Back to the Drawing Board!................
Oh, your brain will be soup. That's the chip's major feature.
The reason we don't detect any other civilizations in the galaxy is because they all probably do this crap and subsequently lobotomize themselves - or become part of the video game collective and abandon reality.