[Nasrudith]

Isn't the issue more that administrators are panicking over the loss of control from the pandemic causing a norms break and are pushing dubious anti-cheating software on everyone out of do-somethingism more than any amount of cheating sufficent for dillution of graduate quality?

Granted the "value evaluation" gets a bit silly to begin with given that either they trust the name enough to use it as a filter regardless of its merit or lack of it or they ignore it entirely and go based off of their own assessment measures with their own sets of issues.