@ste81 You could certainly try that, but I think that it would be rather difficult to get a nice and regular spiral.
And on top of that, the spiral you would get that way would have a changing angle from almost vertical at the bottom to almost flat at the top. Unless you only make ‘one’ cut, but then you have a spiralling ‘line’ (with irregularly distributed vertices!) which you will some- how have to extrude into an edge loop. Nothing but trouble I’d say and I am sure the result would be a horrible topology at least.
But I haven’t tried it so maybe you can get it to work…
