If the devs can’t make a fun game I sure as hell won’t make it fun by cheating, I don’t know anything about game design or how things fit into a meta narratives. A quick look at how other people tackle a problem is also often more helpful, since there is a good chance I’m stubbornly not using some tool in my arsenal.

I use cheats to quickly test things in games lacking an editor, otherwise… the games I play don’t lend themselves to cheating, anyway. Cheat codes really don’t make much sense when lowering a difficulty somewhere is an option.