Aye, I don't get their need to remove player choice. Being able to steal and store police vehicles aswell as wear police outfits for some form of unofficial role-playing seems like a natural extension for players.
I keep hoping they'll embrace the idea of having a police protagonist at some point for an expansion, maybe like officer Tenpenny from SA. They've done the gangster/crime life thing to death now, lets do something different R*.
There's a few things I don't understand with GTA V. They have trucks with the ability to move cargo trailers but omitted GTA SA style trucking missions.
Why'd they remove Vigilante missions when your in a police car, even the wanted board from GTA IV would have done. Why can't you open the cargo plane rear doors. The animations there (from the mission) and we have context action buttons for vehicles.
Just really strange to put in so much effort to these things then only use them for singular missions.