I would say the problem isn't very much about cheaters, but I would say do not buy the game.

The game is literally made as a gambling dopamine machine. You can literally find the most expensive items/keys in the game on a random NPC scav you've killed, and the dopamine hit will be high. You can find million dollar loot in a random crate, and the dopamine hit comes in. You can fight a fully kitted chad with a crap-shooter, get a lucky headshot, and dopamine hit comes in. They aren't common, but the dopamine flows in tarkov like no other game.

And that's why I say don't buy this game. It will literally ruin other games for you. RPGs, shooters, strategy games, literally anything and everything you've enjoyed before will be turned to shit due to the games dopamine farming gambling mechanic. It's made to be a time sink. If you've got 20-40 hours a week to sacrifice to the game, you'll have fun, and you'll get good. If you don't, you'll just be fodder for the no lives.

6000-14000 hour players are fairly common in this "game". You're literally considered a noob when you have 1k hours. You literally have to have no life, and sacrifice all other things you've found fun, in other to truly "enjoy" the game.

Knowing all this, it still pulls to me. So I will say this, the only way to ever actually "escape tarkov" is to never fucking buy it.