This game still doesn't have good gameplay. I've been playing this game (on and off) longer than you've been a member of this website, I've unlocked the gates an embarrassing number of times, likely more than you ever will. After a certain point you just want to get to the meat and potatoes of the game which at this point is mixing offspring to get unusual variants. Cheating in this game isn't the same as in your standard game where you could be handicapping the experience just for a dopamine hit, you're not actually skipping anything of value by cheating. The only thing you bypass is a bunch of walking and the tedium of grinding out the correct traits on a neph to give to a chick so she can open a gate. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're rather new to this game as I could see why you would think like this if you haven't played the game very much.
Even still, who cares? If someone wants to skip everything by cheating that's their own business and if the dev didn't want us to cheat, I'm not sure if you know him well but he would not only not give us cheats to work with but he would do every thing in his power to make sure we couldn't.
This is part of what I meant. Like, dude, if you played since when I started which was a bit before the very first interactions of the day/night cycle aditions, you didnt had cockblock gates, you didnt had Pawsmatti, you didnt had to unlock more than just the barns and quite honestly to me it made sense to have the barns limitations cause barns are the only thing I ever spend ingame money for in a bunch of gameplays.
Back then your concern after starting a fresh playthrough was, to get enough money to buy the remaining barns cause you started with enough to buy the foxy and wolfy ones with some bits of milk and semen in case you run out of lust or simply wanna catch a neph you dont wanna sex. You go back to the barn, harvest their fluids, get some money, buy the remaining barns then go catch the nephs you wanted and started to seek specific pregnancies so you could get the hybrids you were looking for. Then focus on getting the remaining ones, then improving the nephs qualities, etc. But that gameplay loop felt already nice and mind you, it took some work. Specially to unlock the more expensive barns like the Seraphim's but it felt like that work was worth it. Specially when you finally got some Seraphim hybrids like the Daevas.
However now to get any Demon related hybrid takes entire real life days non stop of grind to be able to get it in a single playthorugh. And we have to remember one key aspect in all of this. SAVE WIPES. Every X amount of versions Derelict decides to make the new game version to refuse to load all saves so it means starting all over again. Seriously. I dont know a single person that I explained to them the gameplay loop of BotN that got hooked into wanting to play it. Even soulslike fans for one single reason. They all agree that challenging or grindy, a work process needs to be worth it but specially be something you can keep. Not something youll totally lose 3 updates later unless you stick to an old version.