You covered all the bases with your post. In fact you covered the outfield and infield as well. I’m not sure you even know where you stand on the issue of cheating, not cheating. 8>)
When I was in grad school, one of the students had tried many times to get on Jeopardy. He had not succeeded. He and I had the highest scores in the department on the GRE. I had scored a little better than him but he knew a lot of things I did not. He also noticed things which I did not.
One day he pointed out something they do. That was back in 1990. Since then I have noticed that he was right. It had to do with favoring female contestants. I am not going to say what it was but since then I have noticed some similar things favoring other groups.
It is something that they might even admit if called on it and many people would say it is OK.