Aerial photography; Aerial baptism; Reconnaissance and Observation;
Oh and flight instructing, right ? All of these can be ways to get your hours from 250 to 1500, and I know a few people who were above the 400 hour mark when they started on their IR.
The fact that you are a commercial pilot also assumes that your knowledge of weather is better.
No-one would hire you for any kind of corporate charter flying, even if it is just for hopping across the Mississippi River. And an air taxi requires rather more than a commercial pilot to get an operators license.
I fail to see the problem here. In Europe we think we need to regulate and restrict everything. The result is a diarrhea of legislation, general confusion, sloppy compliance (flown in Spain recently ? How about Slovenia then ?) and an overall diminished business friendlyness that will cost us dearly.