Achievements do not have any value if someone can "cheat" their way to them.
Achievements don't have any value period. What difference does it make to you how someone else got them? Why do you care? There's already ways to unlock achievements instantly.
This part isn't direct at you, Ferrin. If someone uses a 'cheat mode' in a single-player game and plays through
the entire game and is just invincible, who cares? If a handful of people (seriously, I doubt any real fraction of the community has that mindset, "I GOTTA GET CHEAT COMMANDER AND GET DAT DANK HONOUR MODE ACHIEVEMENT!") do in fact want to earn it that way, I don't care. So long as I can earn my achievement by removing Larian's heavy-handed and downright grotesque change to initiative and a few other things that royally irritate me, then I'm happy.
Call me a b*tch, but I'm just annoyed they even went through the trouble to block achievements like that. The incredibly strange decision to make them all hidden like that is a bit weird, but I guess that's what gives them a boner. It's just really annoying because games like Total War: Warhammer 1 and 2 both allow mods and allow you to earn achievements, because they don't care. They just want you to have fun both playing their game and have fun earning these little petty milestones.
It all breaks down to this one golden rule of game design:
Yes, but is it fun? If at any point the answer is 'no', then you need to reevaluate what you're doing and why.
