The thing is: consumers don’t care about which job within the development cycle is the hardest or whatever else. They care that their software is relatively bug

The thing is: consumers don’t care about which job within the development cycle is the hardest or whatever else. They care that their software is relatively bug free. The industry as a whole has been cutting costs in QA and the games are buggy as all hell on release as a result with only a few exceptions. So maybe this QA unionization can save the industry from itself: from dumb dick measuring status games like the ones this comment thread is filled with and from the hubris required to charge 60-80 bucks for unplayable games.