I agree with the OP specifically when talking about presentation. A great many of the online builds appear to have been created using, at the very least, the rotate any which way mod. There are things that just canna be done without 'cheating'.

These builds are pretty, check.
These builds, I wanted to see them, check again.
And, I don't have a problem with 'cheating' -- I have done my own fair share in this and other games, even wrote mods long ago before they were called such, back when you hex edited the executable or an an overlay that scrambled the game's memory directly.

But I wish they had a disclaimer about how they got there if it was not done in vanilla. Nothing is more frustrating to someone that trying to recreate something you saw when it can't be done. And, I would find the community a bit better (you guys are nice, by and large, which is a huge plus) if every question were not immediately answered by "just install a cheat or use dev cheat"