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So you're otherwise OK with the DeVos process, so long as no one has an actual lawyer present?

The reason there's an option for a lawyer present for the accused is specifically so they can have someone who both understands what the process is supposed to look like and also is specifically there to support their defense and enforce their rights and can be trusted that that is their top priority. You could do this with a faculty advisor (and under the DeVos rules you are assigned one if you don't have a lawyer), but since such an advisor would be trained and supplied by the school you'd have to be very careful to avoid allowing the school to appoint someone insufficiently trained, incompetent, or actually opposed to you having a thorough and vigorous defense in order to avoid biasing the process.

But lawyers aside, there are a bunch of questions and details that have been challenged (with varying degrees of success) under the "Dear Colleague" rules. For example:

1. Should the accused be told what they are being accused of before the hearing? If yes, how long before?
2. Should they have access to the evidence being brought against them before the hearing, in order to prepare a defense? If yes, how long before?
3. Should the school be allowed to engage in punitive action against the accused before any decision is made?
4. Should the accused have access to documentation regarding what the process is supposed to look like and what rights they have, and does this include materials to train faculty regarding the process?
5. Should testimony from the accuser be delivered at the hearing, or should they be allowed to provide a written statement? If the latter, how much time should they be allowed to go over and refine that statement before submission?
6. Should testimony from the accuser be subject to questioning? If yes, should they be required to answer those questions on the spot, or should they be allowed some amount of time to draft a response that allows them to produce the strongest possible response (aka be able to do things like consider how any answer might contradict their previous statement/other evidence)? If the latter, how much time?
7. 5 and 6, but for the accused?
8. Should either party be able to bring in third party witnesses, and what are the edges and limits of that?
9. How should contradictions or outright lies by the accuser be considered? For example, the training materials Ole Miss used for its faculty said to treat any lies or contradictions by the accuser as a side effect of trauma and not as indication of anything else. This means any lies the accuser is caught in are considered not to effect her credibility at all, while any inconsistency in the story of the accused is evidence against the accused.
10. When should Title IX even apply? For example, imagine a scenario where an incident between two students is alleged not on school property, not during school hours, and not during an event ran, authorized or promoted by the school. The only connection between the incident and the school is that both of those involved are students - does Title IX apply?
11. What should be necessary to start an investigation? Should the alleged victim have to report it? To who? Should a teacher hearing a rumor about it in passing from a third party in the hallway be sufficient to mandate investigation? Where are the edges of this?
12. If someone makes an accusation, does that free the accuser from being held responsible for other disciplinary infractions? Essentially is making a Title IX accusation a get-out-of-consequeces-free card for other rulebreaking? If yes, for how long and for what?
13. Hell, at a more basic level should the process even be fair to the accused at all? Do they really need any rights or ability to defend themselves?Why not just punish in response to any accusation?
14. A male student accuses a female student of sexually assaulting him. In response to hearing the accusation, she accuses him of sexually assaulting her in turn. How do you resolve this?

Between the hundreds of lawsuits challenging Title IX procedures since the "Dear Colleague" letter and the differences between that policy and the DeVos policy all of those have come up.