I use enchanting, alchemy, and smithing all *without* fortify restoration. That has hard limits on your enchants. On Master or Legendary, you'll want it. On Adept, you probably don't need it, though I won't be sure until I finish a game on Adept.

I consider Fortify Restoration to be a bug / exploit that the developers missed and probably have marked as a very low priority bug (meaning never). They are probably only fixing game breaking bugs that affect the majority of players now.

I have some boosted characters and it was still fun for me, of-course I'm role-playing those characters as full blown demi-gods anyways so if your choosing to make yourself that powerful it's all about sticking with the decision.

Meh, I don't like cheating. I don't see the point in cheating when you can just set the game on novice damage setting and get the same effect without wasting all that time getting the things you need to cheat.