Judging by the results of the poll I would say the only people who don't cheat are the wiki contributors, sadmasicists, or people with literally endless amounts of patience to play through a game that might last 3000 days game time for a normal experienced player (just a random guess on the number). Vanilla warband was always long enough, PoP is fantastic because it has another vibe and cool features, not being it's punishing.
Punishing people for cheating on a single player game is kind of lol.
Yes, nobody would ever need to cheat on PoP if they had infinite time. Maybe PoP is just too grindy and not hard, combat isn't hard, strategy isn't hard, just killing thousand unit armies hundreds of times takes forever.
Consumers are uniquely qualified to judge media, unlike creators who are too close to something to see it clearly.
See what I did there?
Anyways, everyone appreciates all the devs hard work, I had an amazing time with PoP and maybe some day I'll go back for another round, perhaps on full settings with no focus time/completion.