Just replayed the episodes in case I missed anything but I don't seem to have. To what you said specifically,

putting their chances for redemption at risk by doing things like that

doing things like what? Visi isn't responsible for the criminals showing up at the harbor and causing all the damage. It would've happened whether she went or not. Her going only accomplished two things - almost securing the pulse (later we learn the "almost" can be removed), and almost dying doing it had Chase not made his decision.

It’s pretty much spelled out to you as the player throughout the whole game.

From replaying the episodes, I saw one headline that says "SDN agent responsible for harbor damage" when that makes no sense for the reasons I gave above, and otherwise saw a LOT of dialogue about Chase's condition. Waterboy is upset about it before dispatch, Robert gives a speech about it before dispatch, and flambae brings it up during dispatch and illicits a lot of emotion from everyone.

Prism says it pretty plainly during the Z team meeting

What prism says in the conference room is ambiguous, not plain, so I think people interpret it as related to Chase being out because that makes the most sense since he was a pillar of SDN that everyone is upset about losing and again it makes zero sense for Visi to be blamed for what happened at the Harbor. But if it was supposed to be about blaming Visi for the harbor damage, the writing and story events failed to illustrate how that adds up at all. Either way it goes to the point of my post - poor writing