Cheesecake robot. How far is too far?

[logank013]

This has definitely been a topic before on our team but hasn't been discussed a lot. I won't talk about others on my team's views but I will talk about mine.
Basically, I believe the the line has been crossed when it forces a main component of the robot to be unfunctional.
Example: a team has spent 3 or 4 weeks developing their shooter. Despite shooter capability, it is wrong to make them stick a PVC pipe in front of it allowing them to not be able to shoot a boulder.
Cheesecaking is fine when you are adding to it but as soon as you take something away, despite how much you added, you are telling them that their robot isn't good in that part you took away. Does this make sense? Despite our team being an alliance captain much of the time these last two years, I never see our team Cheesecaking and alliance partner's robot. It is fine to a slight extent but most first teams who do it want to cross the line. Unfortunately, there is no rule against it.