you lose a save game for any reason and load your last save or start a new game and cheat yourself to where you were? for example, I lost my save where I was the archmagister of the Telvanni and I had just completed the main quest. My last save is before I started the main quest. Is it cheating to use the console to rush through the main quest and restore my stats to what they were?

Why do you even care? Like if you didn't tell anyone, then they wouldn't know.