Sure I bet management goals are met in the short term, but you have to wonder at what level of quality now that they are left to their own devices. Fixing defe

Sure I bet management goals are met in the short term, but you have to wonder at what level of quality now that they are left to their own devices. Fixing defects after release is 10-25x more costly than if found during construction (McConnel 2003 - Code Complete). How much do you want to bet that removing that brilliant dev that was finding all the issues is going to cost that project much more than they realize.