Do you mean cheats besides the cheat codes? Like some 3rd party plugin/mods?I'll always say it for people who come up here. This game can be an amazing breeding simulator AS LONG AS you keep very clearly in mind that you'll have to use some cheats to bypass literal IRL days of boring grind until you get to the meat of this game's content. Love having a homestead with a family of hawt futas roaming around in a Palworld-eske style but you have to understand for your mind's sake that getting that "without" cheats.... Welp, you're in for A FUKIN GRIND, literally speaking and also annoyingly hypothetically as well. Unlike other games like survivals such as Minecraft or Conan Exiles that also have grind, in those you feel like the grind, while bothersome. Each bit you do counts a lot. Go on MC or CE to hunt some iron and by the time you return you can do a lot of stuff or create a bunch of contraptions out of those. But on BotN. Sometimes to level up a neph from say level 1 to level 7 or so can take several ingame days, and this is just assuming that you already acquired the right specimen but only need it to be at a certain minimum level. The rest is another odyssey of it's own.
With cheats on however, the experience can be waaaaaaaaay better. Sure, skipping something like progression might make some interactions like the one with Fessy kinda pointless. But frankly, rather have a half interaction with them than none at all cause it takes me a century to even get to the have access to the area where she initially appears so you can "help" her. This game is the perfect example of the classical question that many gamers at some point face: "Do you play games for fulfilling a sense of accomplishment or to have some mindless fun?"