Ayden it's rather funny how when people disagree with you, you resort to insults or attempts to take stabs at them when you know you're in the wrong especially when it comes to cheating. Furthermore, all that this action shows is that you are rather insecure when facing a challenge you can't use an unfair advantage such as cheats to overcome.
Now since that's out of the way, you are stating this isn't an appeal for your ban? Even though this is a clear APPEAL that you typed stating "I am humbly coming to the UA to ask for some leniency" as well as "If granted the opportunity to be unbanned". Those lines sure make it sound like an appeal to me and I am fairly confident everyone else who has read this will interpret that as well. Not to mention you are still stating that "In certain instances, cheating in an online experience is wrong." When playing an online game it is wrong to cheat bottom line end of story. There is no instance that changes this! This statement made by you shows clear intent to continue to cheat by the fact you are stating that if you feel justified in any instance to cheat you can and will cheat. Furthermore claiming that "I never wanted to, and never did, use them in any way shape or form" brings up two questions.
First, then why did you have the cheats in the first place if you “never wanted to”?
The answer is clearly that you “never wanted to” get caught and never thought you would other wise you wouldn't have had them in the first place.
Second, how did they see you using them in a Diverge VC exactly if “you never did”?
The answer to that is simply that “you never did” play without them as you stated above when stating you'd used them for 8 years.
As I stated before Cheating is Cheating, and it shouldn't be done in any multiplayer environment. To accept your appeal which is exactly what this is regardless of your attempt to claim it’s an apology would be to accept the appeal of someone who has made it clear he has every intention to continue to cheat by his own words and admissions. As such I implore UA to uphold this ban and deny this Appeal in its entirety.
