It amazes me to see these machines. I saw a tutorial and all you do is select the pattern, tell the machine the corners of the block and the machine does everything to size and adjust it to be centered and gougeous.
I guess is not cheating unless there is a competition. It just adds more wood to the fire of the forever discussion of when can quilts be judge together or if a separate categoty must be made. I for one would not want to sit by machine and struggle with my huge quilt and be judge in the same group as someone who just "told" the machine what to do.
Besides the side of competition, as long as the quilt is finished, is fine with me. It opens the door to people with serious health conditions and can not stand for long periods of time or can not hold a needle due to arthritis, to be able to still call a quilt finished.