Life Paths feel like they're a leftover from a pre-Keanu game design. If they aren't, they're an even worse design - they all funnel towards Street Rat within twenty minutes.
You get invited to join Max-Tac by 2012 Trailer Cyberpsycho Girl, but it obviously doesn't go anywhere and I don't believe you ever speak to her again.
Same reason they excised third person, same reason there's no nudity outside inventory:
Walmart will never carry an AO game, and they wanted console sales.
Which sure did turn out to pay off!