My org has mixed teams. We find devs are terrible at being QAs. This is not through lack of willingness but they're always either overtesting or undertesting an

My org has mixed teams. We find devs are terrible at being QAs. This is not through lack of willingness but they're always either overtesting or undertesting and usually missing the test boundaries. So we use the SDET model, software developers trained in testing to build out the automation and high quality QAs with lots of domain knowledge to do the static and exploratory testing. In my experience (hiring manager for QAs), there's no way I can get SDETs for anything like the price of a journeyman dev. I'm probably looking at a 20-40% premium right now for someone decent.