Saying "useless appendage" sounds to me like it's the QA team that's the problem, when what you're really saying is that it's the organization and process that

Saying "useless appendage" sounds to me like it's the QA team that's the problem, when what you're really saying is that it's the organization and process that pushed QA teams into irrelevance. I agree with your assessment overall, and those issues were one of the driving forces behind companies dispensing with QA and putting it all on the developers.