Agreed. I don't think its cheating either, especially if you are increase AND decreasing not only your own players but also the CPU players. I don't want the experience to be ruined, or to put more lightly- not as fun, because players are not improving the way they should.
Plus, why does anyone care if somebody is cheating in THEIR OWN game? Does that affect any of these people who have their panties in a bunch? Does that make them not able to sleep at night knowing someone out there is cheating and making all of their players 99? The only thing these people could possibly be cheating is cheating
themselves out of a fun, and challenging franchise.