I wonder if that's actually a feature, considering what its simulating.
It certainly is. It drives revolutions. If anything, it's too hard to get anywhere
with banditry in the game.
I've been playing around with the concept of a two-player asymmetrical train game where one player plays the railroad company and the other a gang of train robbing bandits.
You can totally do that in LotSM. But it is most profitable when the gang is made up of the local military.
It's so hard to get guns into Mexico.