God, another very funny thing about Garak is that for the first… five-ish seasons, he really is just a tailor. Like, he gets involved in random plots but he’s not actually affiliated in any way with the Cardassian government. He is not a member of the Obsidian Order. He’s just a tailor with a particularly varied skillset.
Idk, it just makes me laugh because he says so many times in those seasons “Oh! Me? A plain, simple tailor?” And he’s not actually lying. He’s being objectively truthful. He may be a former spy and assassin, but in the present day, that guy just sews and hems. It’s not a cover. That is his real-life day job. I know this is obvious and he says it all the time, but he gets caught up in all of these big plots and he gets to go with the crew on some exciting missions. When you get down to the brass tax of what is actually happening, Sisko is letting Just Some Guy do whatever he wants.