Is it considered cheating to look up evolutions and BST for clover playthroughs?

I'm going through my first time and i'm currently on the ruse cruise.

Big fan of the difficulty scaling atm, but i'm worried that it's going to snowball into solid walls that will be difficult to grind up to after I get past the boost that pokemon evolving are offering me.

Do people actually play it without fast forwarding as well? For things like egg hatching and grinding? I haven't resorted to it yet, but I was wondering if it somehow respected your time in a way that the old games didn't.