People have done it for years with others games, so if they haven't fixed it by now. I don't think it is considered cheating. It has been that way ever since the DS came out and they still haven't fixed it. So I think it is fair game.
With SwSh, sometimes you just can't get past a pokemon and are stuck there. Since not everyone has internet easily and Switch has a fairly weak connection, at least older models, they have no choice. They tried to fix it with Pokemon BW, I think, by pausing daily things, but then just gave up because people still did it.