The problem with automated testing is that the people who would best benefit from having a very detailed and comprehensive test suite to verify their work are p

The problem with automated testing is that the people who would best benefit from having a very detailed and comprehensive test suite to verify their work are precisely the same people who cannot write that test suite effectively. Someone who half asses the business code is absolutely going to less than half ass the test code, and now you have no real verification that what they did was right.... And now likely have some shitty tests to take care of too!