Cheating generally describes various actions designed to subvert rules in order to obtain unfair advantages. ... A person described as a "cheat" doesn't necessarily cheat all the time, but rather, relies on deceitful tactics to the point of acquiring a reputation for it.

If you play it with your friends and build stuff etc. It's all good i would say ? i mean you paid for the game , because you enjoy it and some people out the find it tedious to deal with the weight/inventory space management ,which can lead too a place filled with no despawning items or some annoying creatures come to invade you and maybe mess up your building.

Once the building is finished. You feel happy about it and amazed on what you created ,however i used both ways and i feel doing it without fly mode and creative mode more immersive to build , but also sometimes more frustrating to get the proper angles.

I played a few days ago with some friends , who hated me for powerleveling bow to 100 , which i barely used ,since its really busted and they kept constantly blaming me for it and telling me i cheated the game (?) im not allowed to do that and should feel bad about it ?
I mean how can this be called cheating ?? When i just focus on leveling a specific thing like i bought the game and if i want to level archery i do that ? If i want to build free with creative mode. You can do that too , aslong as you dont drop ♥♥♥♥ stuff like endgear armor and leave the server or oneshot ♥♥♥♥.

I feel like people making cheating more dramatized than annything else, if someone wants to build limited or more freely. He can do that in both ways legit or creative mode.No harm there ,if he would drop items for other peoples or oneshot stuff , thats a different story ??

Just play the way you like it. You bought it you should enjoy it, aslong as you dont mess up other peoples games