Kicker who are you at the end of the day? They are doing their own thing, you do yours. You may feel they do not deserve it but end of the day the only one that matters if the one that got the clear.
By cheating. Not on their own merits. Not by their own skill.

If they feel their clear is deserved then it is to them.
Im sure they are happy with their "clear", pity it wasnt on their own merits.

I feel like a lot of people are too busy parading around on their high horse pointing at the cheater to notice the 6 other people that the OP massively inconvenienced.
..thats on the cheater. Not on OP.