Absolutely.

I like a challenge. It’s not fun if there’s no risk. But the bottom line is a lot of devs appear to not have a great grip on gameplay. These days if I come across a mechanic that is just bad, I cheat or go to Nexus Mods and find a mod to just strip the mechanic out of the game or alter it to make it more reasonable. Just got done playing a game I Nexus Modded the shit out of to get it to play the way I wanted.

Or maybe you just select a difficulty you think you can handle but you get halfway through the game and you realize you can’t and you aren’t going to start over cuz you have a life.

Cheating is totally fine to get the experience you want unless you’re doing it in an online game, then you can die a slow death.