Agree fully.
But it's also important to be honest about what we are doing.
Bernie, you take active part by play your instrument in the 'orcestra', then you don't 'cheat'.



I've seen some that use the arranger purely as a playback machine and midifile-player
to play commercial midifiles 'as is', (bought or downloaded more or less legally from net)
and pretends they are playing live at the instrument.
That is in my humble opinion cheating.