Most people now do play very cheese-like. I know like back in 2009-2012 is when most people had fun playing tb (i know i joined in 2013 not trying to act all expierienced or anything) but now people cheese all the time. I do agree with DrHax though, if you keep getting beat by a cheese move, learn to counter it and dont just start whining about it. You dont really see poeple duel in mods like wushu, tk, or rk-mma anymore that much or atleast i dont. But people duel in these 3 mods: ABD, boxshu mushu, and lenshu3ng. Wonder why? Because these mods are extremely easy to cheese people in. In ABD theres snapkicks, kicklifts, podding, pointholding, decap opening, lifting, shoveling etc. But trust me its not hard to counter these moves. Duelers just get graat at cheesing then find people who dont know how to counter cheese moves and make money off them. Then some of those duelers can rack up millions of TC, sell it, buy a booster, farm off the booster, then rack up even more tc, then sell that, buy a better booster, and keep the cycle going until they get to an OP booster and can basically farm irl money. And alot of duels these days are in boxshu mushu. All the mod is is cheesing. All people do is rush, pointhold, get lucky, skeet, etc. And in this mod, its very hard to counter people who are amazing cheesers. If you can get great at that mod, you're set. And lenshu3ng, this is the mod you'll need the most skill in to play (out of the 3 mods) You need to know how to comeback, get points, and block, etc. But every mod has their cheese moves, you can run, rush, pointhold, etc. in lenshu.
I see people dueling 100k-500k sometimes in duelmode. Thats about 12-60+ USD per duel. And all they do is cheese. I really dont blame them if theyre risking that much. But it would be better to see it be played without cheeses. Ive cheesed before myself quite a bit and i still do it sometimes so im not perfect or anything. This is just my 2 cents on the topic.