Do you use cheats?

Same as most, stuff like resetsim, all the build cheats is normal for me. I don't really use the money cheat (except to take away money). Oh, and I use cheats to get rid of annoying townies waltzing into my house uninvited and trying to bake 200 cakes or something.
I sometimes use the skill or trait cheat when I'm creating a sim with a backstory and don't want to play them.

I use cheats for building and decorating lots, freerealestate to populate worlds after removing townies, and right now environmental cheats to keep world in the industrial footstep.

I use cheats regularly, but almost never for actual gameplay.

I use cheats to up a sim's career or skill levels if I need that sim to have been "around" for a while for story reasons but I just made them, I use relationship cheats to make sure sims who are supposed to be old friends are, I use the free real estate one to move in a family to a home I made them and then cheat down their funds to a more realistic level. I use the unlocks for items hidden from me or locked behind gameplay I have no intention of doing, I use build mode cheats to decorate better. I use reset sim and motive cheats to deal with random bugs or glitches.

Almost all of the cheats I use are to set up a world, or to fix problems, or building/decorating.

I use them all the time because I play to tell stories, not for a challenge. My storyline getting interrupted from low money/needs makes the game a lot less fun to me.

Usually I used move objects on for builds and sometimes the show hidden objects. For my background sims I will use the money cheats to set their money fund for their story. However since eco lifestyle I’ve used the eco footprint ones as it’s much easier to cheat the footprint I want then the horrid glitchy gameplay of it.

Sometimes. Cheats are very useful if I want to set up a sim that I want to function as a background NPC. I'll create the sim and then start it in a new game, use cheats to put the skills and/or traits that I want, then save them and plop them down where I want them in my current game.

It's also useful for putting up households in the lots that I want them to be in.

I use the resetsim cheat a lot. When aging up teenagers, I often use the cheats to increase their conflict resolution, emotional control, and empathy levels, so they can get the associated traits. I use cheats to edit sims in CAS; mostly just for changing appearances. I occasionally use the free real estate cheat when I've built a nice house and I want to move a new family into it. I rarely, if ever, cheat to increase the needs of my sims.

Guilty as charged. I never used to, but quite frankly the needs drain so quickly in this iteration, if I don't cheat up the needs, my Global Superstar will make headlines at his concert for all the wrong reasons: Erik Cantrell gave a dynamite performance. His style of dance was one we haven't witnessed before. The sudden puddle on the stage gave him away, though …

I use them while setting up my base save with new content (adding degrees to premades, for example) and when reducing household funds for challenges.

I also use build cheats.

Only to increase motives or relationships in "emergency" situations... and sometimes I'll use moveObjects on to place certain objects... otherwise, no... I used to use money cheats all the time, but I stopped doing so after realizing how much fun it is to work your way up instead! :)