This reminds me a bit about how SREs and developers conflict on contradictory goals. With a self regulating system that gets established between development and

This reminds me a bit about how SREs and developers conflict on contradictory goals. With a self regulating system that gets established between development and operations, if your code is bad in prod, you'll spend more time in operations to try to take care of the mistakes made in development. If SREs really don't get along with how developers throw over crap and quit, the developers will get the pagers instead. This move to consolidate test and development seems to be consistent with recent trends to pile upon more and more work for developers in the efforts to reduce siloization. So I'd have to ask how getting rid of QA has affected the pace of feature development.