I am generally not a mod user either, but HIGHLY recommend the Better Experience for this one. Like, my highest of recommendations.
This game is a slog of a grind without it and cheating (for money and postions) takes nothing aways from this game or the story. I do not recommend messing with corruption levels though, only money/potions to save time and to replays different corruption levels (once you advance cahracters, you canny see old scenes without a dedicated save. The mod lets you tweak these so you can replay event. Closest thing to a functional gallery.)
Even with full cheats on money and potions, this will still take 50+ hours. This game has an insane amount of content.