OP certainly seems to have unjustly besmirched the reputations of some riders. I wonder, though...if the UCI and the teams hadn't taken action before the TdF, wouldn't everyone be more upset to find out that five (or more) of the top ten finishers were implicated only after the race was done? And with the knowledge that the UCI knew what they knew before the race was run?

Even with hindsight being 20/20, it is a difficult situation for everyone, including the cycling federations and tour organisers. No one wanted to wreck the greatest cycling event in the world, but they felt they had to choose excluding some riders as the lesser of two evils.