If a conservative Supreme Court were really drunk with power, don't you think the Ivy League institutions would have changed more than this?

Without threadjacking: both things are true here, else RvW would not have been overturned as the accomplishment of an explicit political goal.

RvW wouldn't have been established except as a political goal. 1973 wasn't Eden before Original Sin.

This point isn't really relevant to the identification of a "runaway Supreme court" overthrowing precedence with politically outcome-motivated reasoning.

It is if we only blow the "Foul!!!" whistle just after we get the precedent that we want, how we got there be damned.