Magic versus Chrome, Adept trumps Cyber? Options

[JurneeJakes]

Ever since Physical Adepts were introduced in second edition, they've over shadowed Street Samurai. Whereas the Sammie has a six point limit of essence that is partially put off by grades of cyberware for exhorbitant amounts of nuyen, Adepts have no limit to their magic attribute due to initiation. Their abilities, with the exception of internal commlinks, radios, etc, are for the most part superior to their cyber equivilant, have no social modifiers, and won't kill you if you have too much. An Adept with six points of powers loses an essence point; it's a set back and must initiate to regain the lost point. A street sam that takes a point of essence loss when he has 5+ points of cyber is simply dead. Street sams are harder to heal magically. They are obvious, are penalized for tasks such as swimming due to their weight.

I realize that not everything in Shadowrun isn't meant to be balanced in order to keep a semblance of reality (sometimes rock simply beats scissors) but this does seem a little off considering how rare the Awakened are still supposed to be and how attractive they can be in a long running campaign.

One idea I had was to only allow three levels of initiation to correspond to the various grades of cyber, essentially reducing their power cost from then on. This would allow a 12 point cap at third level rather than infinite levels.

Any other thoughts?