I won’t challenge your opinions since they are yours and not mine. The only evidence on the Gonzalez case are the statements made by Avalos and Gonzalez and the results of the tenure decision. That is not to deny the statistics of Gonzalez publishing, teaching, etc., but it seems to me that Avalos and others expected some outcome from their petition.
I'm sure they hoped for one. Universities usually don't like being publicly connected to pseudoscience (Baylor and Marks in the movie, but he still has his job), and the professors will usually try to stop it. It doesn't look good to be a serious scientists and go to conventions where the others laugh "So you're from that Intelligent Design university."