As JJJ already pointed out, past experience shows that cheats can screw up your save to where no progression possible anymore and at the least make you miss content.
Also I respectfully disagree that this is "lack of content". It is a different content, correct, and some players may prefer straight up told story to gameplay mechanics, which is fine. However, in this wide, vast world of sick fetishes, a few of them are along the lines of "playing a game" and "earning a reward" - fetishes where others, even loli incest necrophiliacs, may say "this is too much" but I happen to enjoy these kinks.
If you can skip them without hurting your game, sure, knock yourself out. But for others it's part of the experience and thus it is content. Not least because during the roaming you also get some background on the stuff that's happening.
Never had any issue with cheat mod, and I'm pretty sure many others didn't as well. The only issue reported was inflating the stats through mod.
Well, one could just add money, then purchase the stats available in game, without breaking the limit, or even better wait for the stat's requirement to appear, before purchasing them. By doing so, that would be literally impossible to occur any problem, because the stats would be in the realm of normality within the game's set limits, but they could be bought without the need of the grinding for money, with the click of one button.
Sorry but nope, gameplay enhancement is not actual story content, does not matter how much life quality it is.
Development time that could have been added into the story, was put into this new system.
The explanation was, some people couldn't use the mod correctly.
I think it would be a quicker solution to either bug hunt the conflicting code lines, that would break the game, if stats became too high, which automatically would solve such problem. OR make a mini tutorial about how to use cheat mod without breaking the game.
Then we would have a very similar effect, but with a fraction of development time spent on.
Currently, we can play in 3 ways. Normal, normal with cheats and free roaming. All of those allows full exploration and interaction with the world. Cheats DO NOT remove this option.
We still do not know how VN mode will be. But I hope it only comes into fruition after the story progresses significantly.
Which also appears you share a similar opinion, for you do not seek to lose interactions, therefore VN mode ain't that important for you.
