Obviously they want you to grind through what little there is, to feel like it's a full build worth playing.
Hey, another dev here. We're know that grind is an issue at the moment, sorry about that. Even tho we really want to, don't think it's possible to remove them completely, so that's why one of our main goals for coming update - making them less anoying. Also, we want to add proper reward (except Sombra's Market) for them, who clicked thought this homework hell.
Btw, about 'cheat protection': we added it not because we're assholes and want you to lose your time, don't take us wrong. When we only started working on latest build (0.6.2), we planed to implement cheat-mode, but sadly, other things took so damn much time, we decided to just give up on this idea for now. Cheat protection was nessesary to protect not only game, but players from breaking something when cheat-mode enabled. Atm feel free to cheat you way through the, we don't mind
