My question was a rhetorical one, I do use request-replayers and other techniques (I've been through a bunch in the past 20+ years as they were developed). I w

My question was a rhetorical one, I do use request-replayers and other techniques (I've been through a bunch in the past 20+ years as they were developed). I was challenging the absolutism of "never use mocks", it's just another technique and can be applied easily in integration tests if the guidelines are well set in the team on how to not use them. Also, I do not do external calls in the CI/CD pipeline, it inevitably makes tests brittle and flaky.