sadly the answer from too many people to that question is "yes". If you get the points on the pitch no-one seems to care how you do it.
When a gold medalist is subsequently banned through cheating (drug use for example) no one ever says to the silver medalist "you cheated your way to the gold, you don't deserve it", instead they get lots of sympathy for having the joy of victory taken away.
When a team cheats its way to extra points by spending money it doesn't have somehow we have cheated our way into the league and don't deserve our place. What we actually deserve is the chance to watch our team compete on a level playing field and the joy of that point at Weymouth being enough to finish ahead of Farsley and keep us up, instead of this annual nightmare of waiting to see if the cheats get found out this year or next.