That's not necessarily true.
Keep in mind that in the Shady Business, people mostly prove their worth by way of reputation. If you have a reputation of bumping shoulders with the Guard and save kittens, then if you went to go get a job selling drugs chances are they'd not trust you. If you want to do criminal things, build a negative reputation. There are things you can do IG to increase your OCR. And if you're one of those characters who literally doesn't ever get caught and demand under the radar, then just ask a DM to raise your OCR.
I mean, no solution will ever be perfect. It just worked for the Drain, so there's no reason we couldn't add it for this.