When I started Wanikani 6 years ago I had a conversation with a new level 60 about when to start using scripts and that was their advice:
I was an absolute beginner (pa pa pa ooooh♪♪♪) so the rigidness of vanilla WaniKani made sense. However, circumstances change, and even WaniKani added the recent mistakes, extra study to their dashboard as well as the lesson picker beta - which means even they understood at some point there should be more flexibility in what they have to offer, which was a big no no back then… and those additions to the dashboard are somewhat similar to what you’re saying is cheating.