It’s not about the legitimacy of the educational system itself

Isn't it? If a bunch of loan sharks are suddenly impeding their borrowers ability to pay because their borrowers have used AI, is AI the problem? As a society, the British empire and colonies transcended debtors prisons some centuries ago, as counterproductive as public hangings of pickpockets.

rebuked after the very first try

In your head.

victim-blaming

The victims aren't being victimized by the University's use of (insert new thing here), they've been victimized for decades by overpriced education coupled with a limp job market.

system as irredeemably corrupt

Is it not?

the system is so rotten, how can individual failure to escape it be a moral failing?

The individuals are flocking to the rotten system which gives little benfit to most, negative benefits to many, and now it's threatening to throw them out for embracing a future that the rotten system can't keep up with. This isn't victim blaming, it's redirecting gasoline soaked refugees away from a burning building advertising itself as a safe shelter.

a 7% false-positive rate on a life-altering accusation

Show me the university that's taking these false life-altering actions - where's the list of expelled students? That's going to turn into a list of fat lawsuits and payouts if it exists, which it doesn't, because the Universities would never expel their golden geese. This is hot-air threats just as every "academic integrity" bluster of the past 50 years has been.

Your attempts to claim authority

I'm no authority, I'm a single column of text on the internet, yet you react as if you are threatened...