The perception of cheating levels is orders of magnitude more than the actual amount. The vast majority of games and players are clean.
https://support.chess.com/article/648-what-do-i-need-to-know-about-fair-play-on-chess-com
https://www.chess.com/article/view/online-chess-cheating
https://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-update-march-2025#FairPlay
The site closed more than 100,000 accounts in February for fair play violations and has a full team of staff working on reports along with some automated systems for detection.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/fair-play
That said, discussions of cheating, potential cheating, or cheat detection are not allowed in the general forums. If you want to discuss join the following club https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum
are there any time controls left to play on this site ? The rapid is long gone, as this is the most cheated one, now, the 5 min blitz has become pretty absurd as well, where people blitz out constant under 7 sec moves no matter the postiions, so that is pretty much unplayable, bullet is unplayable cause of the lag, daily is pretty much run an engine and make a move. So what is there left to play ? bots ?