"I can't think of anything else in the game that is reserved for people of lower rank."

Exactly. So why make it available for everyone? It's good that the low ranks have their own feature that Made+ can't use.

And it actually does make sense that a feature disappears when you rank. Especially a feature that has you unearthing recently deceased bodies to steal their possessions.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at, DeadlySin - by that logic, we should probably get rid of the three lowest-ranked petty crimes as well as the lower-ranked felony crimes after you unlock a higher-paying felony from ranking, shouldn't we? Surely a Don wouldn't be running a lowly brothel or still snatching purses, would they?

It's really up to the user to decide whether they want to take part in the mundane.

Well, I actually agree that you should remove those as you rank too (including Pickpocketing as well (but this suggestion is about graverobbing, so we'll stick to talking about that)).

None of those other things we do in game are as despicable as digging up dead bodies for whatever they happened to be buried with. I mean honestly, are you planning on giving this feature to every Made and above? In which case, you would be able to see Godfathers digging up dead bodies for chump change? I don't mean to sound rude here, but get real. This feature shouldn't ever be available to people Made and above.

$5,000 as a maximum yield is far more than the chump change even the highest ranked users are making on their petty and felony crimes. I'm also incredibly skeptical that anyone in the game would take offense or look down on a member for simply robbing graves after a certain rank.

At the end of the day, this suggestion pretty much revolves around choice. As slim as that group would likely be if this was implemented, people are more than welcome to abstain from graverobbing if they believe it'll tarnish their highly sought-after rank.

Grave robbing was installed to help those under made man make a bit of extra cash, and build a skill level. Some people dont know that, some do. The intent was the roleplay aspect that a button man would never stoop to a level of defiling a grave was the reason behind making it not an option once you hit made man. 

To be quite honest, if someone is so distraught that they can't complete one achievement they could always ask to be demoted to wise guy to finish it.

I would actually prefer that the achievement was removed from the achievement page once you hit Made Man, rather than making graverobbing available to everyone.