Rebinding keys, what is considered cheating?

Although I don’t really understand what you mean, at this point I think it’s probably safe to say that anything like that would not be considered cheating. But I don’t know for sure.

I mean, people use things in ranked games all the time like small tree mod, tower/castle range indicators, idle villager indicator, auto scout, auto farm reseeding, short walls mod, terrain grid visual, bombard/mangonel knockout area attack cursors, simplified minimap colors, mods to put pointer icons above resources and relics, building foundation labels, and a plethora of others. Some of the above even started as mods and were made a part of the default/official game. I don’t what is considered cheating in AoE2:DE, to be honest, since so much is permitted.

You can even play the game like it’s a 3D spreadsheet of histogram chart:


Source: CubeNothing - Mod

This game is treated a lot different than how Activision/Blizzard has zero tolerance for any such mods or control aids in Diablo (and maybe Call of Duty?) games