Only having the options of educating, counselling or proving makes the system even less workable, because unless they're going to effectively let you off, they are forced to go to court with the associated pain and cost.
Oh dear.
It would, indeed, be "less workable" if a regulatory authority had to go through "pain and cost" of doing that which is supposed to be one of the cornerstones of our civil society.
Let's make it "more workable" then.
And people wonder how fascism gets hold and thrives.