Long as you're buying or manufacturing the blocks in game and not just using a console command to poof a ship into existence, I wouldn't call it cheating to use someone else's design. No more than I consider it cheating to spawn one of my designs into the game from a blueprint.Yeah I may just make my own out of regular Hull pieces lol
Does anybody consider it cheating to not make your own ships and use them in your games? I'm horrible at building. I'm trying to get better at rounded shapes and cooler looking ships but I'm not great